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Spike and Riley's Island

 

Vale Spike Milligan, author, humorist, poet, script writer, actor and environmentalist.

I first came in contact with Spike Milligan when serving on the "Save Riley's Island Committee".

Spike gave us support and wrote to all the politicians concerned, as well as Lady Hooker, who submitted his plea to save the island to the board of directors.

They rejected his proposal to return the island to the people.

Spike was the guest speaker at a special "Save Riley's Island" meeting held at the Ettalong Community Hall on May 28, 1976.

He told the meeting he was horrified that permission had been given to develop Riley's Island and he pleaded for sanity, love of nature and plain common sense.

He concluded that it was up to us, the ordinary people, to change things for the better.

With Spike's encouragement, the committee and the people succeeded in saving Riley's Island for the better.

Keith Whitfield, Woy Woy