AN ISLAND UTOPIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3548, 9 August 1920, Page 6

AN ISLAND UTOPIA.

SAMOA FOR “SIMPLE LlF_‘EßS_.;"’_

LO'NDON, Jul, 24%

Mr Rhodes—Disher; F.R.G.S.,- who proposes tolead the simple life. in Samoa and the Marquesas Islands, and has received applications from "600 persons fey permission to join 11im,'stated_. in an intervieW,.that he had not considered the suitability of Ilfiustralia. for" “simple life?‘ purposes. §He did not know the mainland or the islands adjacent, but he did‘ know Samoa and the Marquesas. ‘ ' } It was pointed out to him that Ausi itralia “gas free from malaria--and ‘flurricanes, and that there were already persons leading the (‘simple life” on jthe Queensland coast. ' "'5 ’ " : Mr Rhodes-Disher \\‘as not confine‘ed. He said he, had heard of W’. Lane’s “NeW.Australia” e:-:p'ei‘imenif; but added""that7 by"‘Ai§'oidiixg' the In‘l's- - made at Pa'ta§o'nia.," h'e {vould make ‘possible an"unsocia:l'isl*ic - ‘gm--=: ernment. ‘ ” :" ¢'l!'l"Y "‘ The prospective settler, "_lles"Asaid.—‘ must be good tempered,“-t‘émperate,§ tolerant, -and read’_v"'to iwork tAWb~"t'U’ ‘tour bolus-‘aaily=2o3They-wwé9ulel='«be2249-! quired to 'put?"ir‘flm £’2(3o".fs(()f""wlilcl{= £IOO would be for fare, £3O for as house, and the rest‘ for_ emer encies_ Mr ,R‘-nodes-Di_schei¢ e:i:.l')é3t?g‘fo send out the firs’: pa:-t"\}Ho'n',47l3i~il"3f"." ()’l"H' islanders ‘are ‘fl-e'Z27f"§‘ ’cri'ti'ci:sii"lg "'fl.l"e_ scheme. ' ' ' M”