MOTOR-CARS NOT WANTED ON NORFOLK
GOOD PRICES FOR FRUIT The advantages and charm of Norfolk Island have so impressed Captain R. H. Stainforth that he has decided to go there to live. He returned to Auckland this morning by the Hinemoa after a visit to the island. Captain Stainforth says that the arrival of motor-cars on the island did not meet with the approval of the Inhabitants. Three Ford cars and a motor-lorry are there at present, but a petition of protest against them has been lodged with the Administrator. Land, which is particularly fertile, is bringing from £lO to £3O an acre. The inhabitants are busily planting bananas in order to increase the export trade. At present, said Captain Stainforth, the planters are realising high prices for their fruit, most of which is being shipped to the Sydney market, where there is a shortage of bananas owinc to the blight in the Queensland plantations.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 1
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155MOTOR-CARS NOT WANTED ON NORFOLK Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 1
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