PITCAIRN ISLANDERS
rvACUATION CONSIDERED LIKELY. — RESIDENTS SHORT OF FOOD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 25. Tlie Federal Minister of External Affairs, Mr Perkins, has received information through a tramp steamer that Pitcairn Islanders are desperately in need of food, only one ship having passed the island within six months.
Mr Perkins is now conferring with British authorities. It is expected that a decision will be reached to take the people off the island for the second time in history.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1939, Page 5
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79PITCAIRN ISLANDERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1939, Page 5
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