Unsympathetic Mother: “Why didn't you come and ask me first if you wanted to go fishing.” Sobbing Small Son: “Because I wanted to go fishing.” A little while ago, an advertisement in a Cape Town newspaper offered to six men and their wives the chance of living on an island in the South Sea. Scores of people applied for this privilege, and the advertisers are now contemplating accepting a dozen men and their wives. Among the applicants were a doctor and a wireless expert. It is hoped that a man with practical knowledge of farming will apply, and it is expected that the new colonists will sail in about four months. Each couple is expected to provide £3OO. and all are under solemn obligation to lead a busy, useful life for the common good. Their home will be in one of the Marquesas Islands, a thousand miles from the nearest trade route.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1938, Page 3
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152Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1938, Page 3
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