NIIHAU ISLANDS
A PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC. Lihue, Kauai Island—Entirely cut off from the rest of the world is the strange little island of Niihau, just west of this island and a little over one hundred miles northwest of Honolulu. It belongs in the Hawaiian grouu, but is owned by one man, who devotes the island to stock raising. It is an island without automobiles, wireless, dogs or jails. Its entire population of 130 Hawaiians makes up the membership of the one church on the island. The only school has four grades, where only the rudiments are taught. Prohibition has been in force on Niihau for the past sixty years. Tobacco smoking is prohibited by the owner. There is no post office on the island. Nor is there a store of any description. Supplies and “store clothes’’ are brought in by the occasional whaleboat trips to the island of Kauai. No other boats or steamers stop at Niihau. , As visitors to Niihau are not encouraged, little has been known about the life on the island. The foregoing facts about Hawaii’s strangest island devloped from an inspection trip made by the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii, Lawrence M. Judd.
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Southland Times, Issue 21092, 26 May 1930, Page 4
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199NIIHAU ISLANDS Southland Times, Issue 21092, 26 May 1930, Page 4
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