NORFOLK ISLAND
OLD SETTLERS WELL OFF
NEWCOMERS HAVE TO WORK
(fieceived 11th December, 1 p.rn:) ■ SYDNEY, This Day. Economic conditions In Norfolk Island are referred to in.the Administrator's annual report in the following terms:— "Freeholders working tueir own properties require comparatively little cash. Leaseholders paying old nominal rents are similarly circumstanced. New settlers paying comparatively high rents and developing new areas must provide capital and support themselves till their income accrues, while thosa who desire to keep house in the ordinary way will find the prices of the usual commodities higher than on the mainland. : "The demand for land remains brisk and the prices of land are high. Most of the freehold land is held by Norfolk Islanders who inherited it from their forbears. Five of the original band of Pitcairn Islanders who landed there in 1856 died during the year. There are now only three men and five women survivors. The average age oJC the deceased Pitcairners was 83 years.*
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 10
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161NORFOLK ISLAND Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 10
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