A dato plantation at Baira in M«»potamia hasljeen sold to Halal Muntari, of . Kuweit, for 300,000 rupees (about" £22,t ■ 000). The purchaser was once a humblavendor of date stones as food for, donkeys, '.. :'( and his wealth first es.me in finding-»: ' pearl m the' Persian Gulf,: which .he »old in Paris for 50,000 rupees. ' Muntariafter-V wards kept to pearling, and last year-iold-:-pearls to the Value of ■; 2,700,000 iiipeaip ,(£202,000).- The daU pjUnUtfaii b»&£3
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1925, Page 9
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72Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1925, Page 9
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