AN ISLAND KINGDOM
NIIHAU, PACIFIC PARADISE Entirely cut off from the rest of tie ■world is tlie strange little island of Niihau, just west of Kauai, and a little more than 100 miles north-west of Honolulu. It belongs to the Hawaian Group, but is owned by one man, who devotes the island to stock raising.
It is an island without motor-cars, i wireless, dogs or gaols. Its entire population of 130 Hatwaiians makes up the membership of the one church on the island. The only school has four grades, when: ' only the rudiments are taught. Prohibition has been in force on Xiihau for the past 60 years. Tobacco smoking is prohibited by the owner. i here is no post office on the island, j Nor is there a store of any description. Supplies and “store clothe' 1 are brought in by the t»cra«iona! wholeboat trips to the island of Kau*iXo other boats or steamers stop V Xiihau.
As visitors to Xiihau are not eouraged. little has been known abon* the life on the island. The foregote? facts about Hawaii’s strangest island developed from an inspection trip made by the Governor of the tenv tory of Hawaii, Lawrence M. Judd.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 2
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199AN ISLAND KINGDOM Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 2
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