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Important Public Meeting For Norfolk Island People

13 February 2025

Important Public Meeting For

Norfolk Island People

WEDNESDAY, 19TH FEBRUARY 2025

5.15pm CHRISTIANS CAVE

  • The Truth – The Evidence – The Promise
  • Explanation, expansion of brief prepared for and provided to NIUPPG (Power point presentation)
  • Australia, no jurisdiction over Norfolk Island (Guests)
  • The Government of Norfolk Island
    1. Ask people at meeting who may vote to help reactivate the government.
    2. Returning Officer - to be appointed
    3. Nomination of Positions (all native born)
    1. Some recommended topics for the Government of Norfolk Island to begin with:

Immigration, Land Rates, Norfolk Island Regional Council, Freight services, Electricity, Control of Norfolk Island.

Compensation to descendants of the Pitcairn Settlers separately from Australian Government and separately British Government.

Notes:

1790 Fletcher Christian and others from HMS Bounty with Tahitian men and women arrived at Pitcairn Island

Those people settled Pitcairn Island

John Buffett, John Evans arrived on Pitcairn Island 1823

George Hunn Nobbs arrived on Pitcairn Island 1828

From 1856 the only people supposed to be living on Norfolk were the Pitcairn Settlers and their descendants as per the Agreement with Queen Victoria.

Pitcairn Settlers SETTLED Norfolk Island 8 June 1856.

13th November 1838 Pitcairn Island Constitution

Extracts:: Regulations for the appointment of a Magistrate at Pitcairns Island On the 1st day of January every year an Elder or Magistrate is to be elected by the free votes of every Native born on the Island, Male or Female, who shall have attained the age of 18 years, or of persons who have resided 5 years on the Island. The greatest number of votes shall determine the Election, or re-election of the Magistrate, whose duty it shall be to hold the Chief Authority on the Island, and to settle all differences with the advice of his Council, which is to consist of two other Natives, one to be named by the Votes of the Assembly, and the other by the Magistrate himself, but his decision is final. It will be incumbent on his Countrymen and the residents on the Island to respect his situation, and obey his Authority, under pain of serious consequences, until he is superseded by the Authority of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain.

No one shall be eligible for the situation of Magistrate but a Native born inhabitant of the Island.