LONELIEST POLICEMAN
STATIONED AT REMOTE ISLAND. The loneliest policeman in the Australian continent is Constable John Stokes, in charge of a watering and fuel base for pearlers at Elcho Island, a tiny dot on the map of Arnheim Land, Northern Australia. Apart from an occasional Thursday Island pearling lugger, the only visitors he sees, are in the Northern Territory patrol boat which visits the Island on an average of four times a year, and wandering aborigines from the mainland. He has no wireless and no means of communication with the mainland except through native channels. When he wishes to send an urgent message to headquarters at Darwin, 400 miles away, he has natives send it by smoke signal aZong the mainland coast, thence by runners to Darwin. But his idyllic existence more than compensates for the loneliness, for Elcho Island is one of the most beautiful islands on the dreary Arnheim Land coast, and the most fertile. A golden beach fringes every little cove round the island, and there is an ample supply of fresh spring water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 2
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