NEW HEBRIDES.
LAND CLAIMS-BRITISH.. SURVEYORS WANTED. (By Tolceraph.—trcse Association.—Copyrlcht l' ■ , . '(Roc. August 13,'10;15 p.m.)
< Melbourne, August 13; j Information' has : reached ■ tho .PVosbytcrian Church authorities that over 20 French surveyors aro.engaged m surveying land in tho. Now Hebrides, ,and that a largo , number of British settlers served with notices that' certain" Frenchmen
With a view to conserving,the interests of British, and Australian. .missionariea and: natives; the Presbyterian: Chur.ch of Victoria, in conjunction with tho Island; shipping firm, i Messrs. Burns,; Philp, and Company; is sending a Couple of surveyors to tho Now Hebrides to - survey, mjssion .lands""and tho holdings' of 'such British '.settlors as avail themselves .'of*''the' surveyors' \ services,:':'.!
When- tlio 'surveys'aro comploted.a legal export will procecd :to the Islands. : to see tliat'ithe .claims',of■ tli6-Britisli may ;W ' properly presented before;: tho . Anglo-French Joint Land Court.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 5
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135NEW HEBRIDES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 5
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