On the Go--China & Pakistan

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NB. This is just a trial and has no relation to what will become the finished product.

Life on Ocean Island 1950/51
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Getting There.

It was in 1949 when, as a recently qualified pharmacist, I was working in a pharmacy in Dunedin, a city in the South Island of New Zealand, that I first heard of Ocean Island. In an issue of the Pharmacy Journal, a position was advertised as “Dispenser and Hospital Assistant” on Ocean Island in the Central Pacific. Not knowing where the island was I went to the Public Library and found that it was a small island just south of the Equator noted mainly for its deposits of guano which were mined there, shipped south to New Zealand and Australia and converted into phosphate fertilisers for the farmlands of those countries. So it
was with visions of swaying palms, sandy beaches and tropical breezes that I decided to apply for the position. Incidentally the salary offered was quite good and the conditions excellent...no income tax, free house and all meals supplied.

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