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(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copvripht) BUNDABERG (Queensland), March 25.
The United Nations has rejected a Bundaberg scrap metal dealer’s request for a permit to salvage scrap on die moon.
Mr J. Schouwnmann, managing director of Burnett Base Metals, wrote to the' United Nations Secretary - General (U ThahO asking for lunar salvage rights. He had a reply yesterday from the United Nations information centre in Sydney, to which his request had. been redirected, saying that the United Nations had already negotiated a treaty for the peaceful uses of outer space, under which the moon would not belong to any one country. But the letter said that, as with salvage on the high seas, Mr Mann was welcome to anything of value on the moon, providing he could get to ft.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32565, 26 March 1971, Page 1
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