DUTCH PROPERTY
SAFEGUARDING DECREE PREVENTION OF DISPOSAL (Par Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. According to advice received by the Netherlands Consul, a Royal decree was published by the Netherlands Government on May 24, whereby measures are taken to safeguard the property of Netherlands individuals and companies against disposal contrary to their interests or those of the country. Under the decree, claims of whatever description or legal form, including gold deposits, shares, securities and rights under credit arrangements, which belong to individual companies in the Kingdom of the Netherlands who on May 15 were not resident outside the now occupied European part of the Kingdom. and can be pledged, sold or disposed of in whatever form outside the aforementioned part of the Kingdom, become, as from May 24 last, the property of the State represented by the Royal Netherlands Government temporarily resident in London. Such property will be administered in the interest of the original owner and proprietary interests will be restored after the war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20259, 29 May 1940, Page 4
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