SALE OF FANNING ISLAND.
—•,' 'V " r T | : ; a i'iuvaTe ' matter'. ' 1 : , | ; BT TKLEGUArn—riIESS • ASSOCIATION—COPTBicirr. Svciney, Deeember -10. Mr." Uumphroy Berkley,—who—recently purohasod Fanning' ; Islahd. for ; £25;000, ,i§ : yisitiug Sydney. InternDwed,""hirsaid : in"Tlie nominal purchaser, .was Father Rougier, ah intimate friend of mine j in fact, he acted, for me. The .purchasovha? no religious 6r political significance wha'tover. I wais originally half-owner pf tho'island. Both Wasliington arid Fanning -Islands are iiiplncled. in. the purchase, 'and f - Avantod ,to determinej the • propriOtorship' •either by partition oK sale. The' Cour- decreed a sale. - / ■ "Tho island docs not chango its flag. I am au- Englishman,' ,'ahd the' cable ."station, will always be Government property.; The islands 'never'. liad' any 'population' £or 1500 years. There are evidences ,of that. The only inhabitants to-day are 187 .South Sea islanders And botv/epri '.'twenty and thirty cable operators.- -The registrar to the. High Commissioner' has given;' a /certificate that tho revenue from copra in the. islands ib £8000 a year, exclusive of tho procrecds from phosphate ; of lime.'.' •- : . i.-,> '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 74, 20 December 1907, Page 7
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169SALE OF FANNING ISLAND. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 74, 20 December 1907, Page 7
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