An Island That No One Claims
TiUIOTt to the recent elections the registration officer for the Caernarvonshire County Council compiled a list of voters for Bardsey Island, which lies off the coast of Wales, but the inhabitants had to make the fourmile sea voyage to the polling station at Aberdaron if they wished to register their votes at the General Election. Only twenty-five of the total population of thirty-seven are voters.
In the past there was a controversy as to whether the island belonged to Caernarvonshire or Pembrokeshire. It was contended that In the old days the island was used as a homo of rest for monks from St. David’s, in Pembrokeshire, but the Pembroke County Council declared that the connection between Pembrokeshire and the Island was a myth., The present Inhabitants of the island
aro unable to throw any light on the subject. Mr. John Roberts, the president, said he is inclined to agree with the late "King” Love Pritchard (unofficial “King” of Bardsey and a very picturesque figure) that the island is independent of any county, as the inhabitants so far have not taken part in local government or Parliamentary elections. Only one political meeting was ever held on the island.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 18
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203An Island That No One Claims Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 18
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