ON SUNDAY ISLAND
TUIS AS COMMON AS SPARROWS. THE YAWL MARIE'S CRUISE. . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day. Writing from Sunday Island, where he sailed as a member of the crew of the yawl Marie', at present making a three months’ cruise in the Pacific, Mr Neville James, a member of the reporting staff of the “Wanganui Her aid,” says extensions are being made to the Post and Telegraph meteorological station on the island, presumably for assistance to the planes of the Tasman service.
From the fact that tuis "are as common as sparrows” ' on the island. Mr James advances the theory that Sunday Island was once a part of New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1939, Page 4
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112ON SUNDAY ISLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1939, Page 4
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