FANNING ISLAND
♦ ITS ALLEGED SALE. NOTHING IN IT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 3. (Received December 3, at 9.25 a.m.) Mr Milward, the representative of the Pacific Cable Board, states that the sale of Fanning Island has no imperial significance whatever. It simply relates to the sale of the Panning Island Copra Estate, which does not mean the whole island. The fact that the estute absorbs all hut about forty acres of the island does not affect the question of British control, which remains the same, while the Pacific Cable Board's possession is untouched. The purchase of the estate by a French Catholic missionary, who ranks second to Bishop Vidal, of Fiji, has no religions significance either, as it is known that the missionary was only the nominal purchaser for someone else who already possceees large trading interests in the Island.
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Evening Star, Issue 12814, 3 December 1907, Page 6
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141FANNING ISLAND Evening Star, Issue 12814, 3 December 1907, Page 6
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