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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1926, Page 5

■“ln my last report.”, says the Public Trustee in his report to. 'Parliament upon enemy property in New Zealand, “I stated that it was .anticipated that all the liquidation schedules in regard to German property in Samoa retained by the New Zealand Government would be completed shortly thereafter. Ihe value of the reparation estates has, however, not yet been settled, and 1 understand that it is the intention oi the Right Hon. Sir Francis Bell, exMinister of External Affairs, . to propose ia; basks lor -arriving at tne v-alu-at ion of these, properties to the representatives of the German Government, whom he anticipates meeting at the assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva,, in September next. If his proposal is acceptable to the German Government, the assessment of the values of the property will occupy a period of .several months. It is not anticipated, therefore, that the New Zealand Government will in the near future be in. a. position to account for the value of the ex-enemy property retained in Samoa.”

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