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Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1921, Page 5

Misfortune has overtaken the Pitcairn Islanders the inhabitants of the lonely spot in the Pacific whose only communication .vith the outside world is by an occasional passing steamer. When the Essex, which arrived at Lyttelton on Saturday last, stopped at the Islands to pick up mails, the islanders reported that their only schooner, built with their own hands after long months of toil, and launched a year or two ago with an imposing semi-religioiis ceremony, had been lost. How or when the schooner was lost t-he islanders did not say, nor did they mention whether the mishap had been attended with loss of life The schooner was their only means of inter-island communication and the islanders are once again confined to jifoQ Jixnits of their land.