LONELY JOB
' life on island. Ihe loneliest:■ job in .Greart 'Britain : appoihte^-hy'ther/Eiwl; act as caretaker. m£ th©. inland- -of •--Rtyj—- ~ Hilda' "during/fhiv next few months. If;- is one . of ,t, hg q ueer&st of occupa--tibris, for iiie duties, conisist of enuring that . or .others from .pjissing ships-~i u£er fpresn , with the I/jrd Dumfries, who js" a keen uaturlalisjt, purchased . tho v Alone isle?’ over a:.- year ago, some timav' the islanders had evacuated it, and is determined to protect' Rt. Hilda’s seafowl, His representative landed .in April, and • will remain therei .acting as watchman untjr October; He will thus be alone on St. Hilda, with‘its deserted village and -decaying houses, until the -first steamer sailing from f the ~.yde is due to call at the island witli sightseers.--Li” ' E -. . ’ '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19330626.2.38
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1933, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
129LONELY JOB Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1933, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in