MODERN CRUSOES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)

MODERN CRUSOES

EXAMPLE IN OTHER LANDS

WHAT THE CENSUS REVEALS

Much interest has been aroused J New Zealand of late in the accounts of Sunday Island and its few daring inhabitants. That the taste for solitude and isolation which these P e ® p ._ manifest is not unheard of the to - lowing census returns issued in Grea Britain will show. . Little Papa, an islyid in the * lands, a group far north of Scotlan . has only one inhabitant, while Have gate Island, off East Suffolk. has a total population of two —both me “’ A man and his wife live alone the Island of Holm of Grimbister, » ‘ the Orkneys, while on Hunda, so of Kirkwall, there are three peop«*. and seven on Copinshav. Off the west coast of Ireland iw® Inishmurray, which has the disti tion of never having paid any tax »• There are tiny groups of maJe * lt female Crusoes scattered through the world. On Peeling Island, in Straits Settlement, are a handrui people who, like their Irish colleag live a tax-free life. . x When Peeling first defied the collector an attempt was maac K _ Jlt enforce payment, and H.M. ? un Wasp was sent to persuade islanders to hand over their t of the Empire’s expenses, but the was wrecked, arid all hands were - • Since th. n the authorities have the place alone.