NAURU.
ALLOCATION OF PHOSPHATES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 28. The Australian Press Association has been authoritatively informed that newspaper cables from Australia imputing recalcitrancy by the British Government in. reference to Nauru, resulting in a deadlock, are wholly unfounded. It is also untrue that the agreement between Britain, Australia and New Zealand will expire in 1925. The agreement is perpetual, but the allocation of the output from Nauru is reviewable at five-yearly periods, the first of which is 1925.
Mr. Dickinson, the British phosphate commissioner, is of opinion that Britain cannot afford to surrender its nghts under the agreement, because Nauru and Ocean Island possess the most valuable deposits in the Empire. The only reason Britain is not participating in the output is because the North African product is cheaper, owing to exchange. Speaking with twenty years’ knowledge of the Nauru and Ocean Island deposits, he considers they are suflicient for a hundred yea rs.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 July 1924, Page 5
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