DISTRESS ON PITCAIRN
no supplies landed FOR WEEKS STORIES OF TYPHOID RAGING DENIED. 9 ISLANDERS IN PITIFUL PLIGHT. By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 1.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 21. Mrs Dorothy Hall, a wireless amateur who constant!}’ communicates with Andrew Young, a wireless amateur on Pitcairn Islands, says she had informed the British Consul that the Pitcairn Islanders are facing destitution, due to a rumour that typhoid was raging on the islands, causing all vessels to keep off for six weeks and not land any supplies. The islanders insist that there is no foundation for the report that typhoid is raging, and ‘states that they are in a pitiful plight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 6
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113DISTRESS ON PITCAIRN Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 6
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