DISSATISFIED SETTLERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 2 August 1937, Page 8

DISSATISFIED SETTLERS.

SUNDAY ISLANDERS RETURN. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 2. What has been happening on Sunday Island and why have five settlers, after a fairly short stay, been brought back to New Zealand? This question, which has been exercising inquiring minds since the radio message that the men were leaving was received last Thursday, was partly .elucidated when the Maul Pomare berthed at Lyttelton to-day with the dissatisfied settlers on board. They have formed a compact of secrecy with a view to composing their own story and selling it to the highest bidder. They spent some time this morning endeavouring to dodge cameramen and, politely but firmly, refused information. Four of the five returning Sunday Island islanders, Messrs A. Flewellyn, L. Flewellyn, A. Magill and S. Sneddon, are young New Zealanders; the fifth man, Mr J. Grant, is an Englishman. Tlie fact that they have been dissatisfied . with the conditions under which they lived and worked on Sunday Island was easily deducible, but of * those conditions and of their relationships with the rest of the settlers they would not speak. They would not even discuss the arrangement under which they went to the island or their hopes of island life.