MELANESIAN COMPANY.
GERMAN C.il'l ...... gY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Keecived 11.45 p.m. to-day. LONDON. Nov. .4. it. is learned tliat Lie paid, up capital or tlie Melanesia Company dennitely includes 55 per cent, of German money. lne Sunday Express- points out that the German Government is opeuiy encouraging German business men to secure large economic footholds in bet lost colonies, and emphasises that uit League of Nations aim is to- forbid discrimination .against Germans. —Sydney Suif Gable. 1A message received on November 12 from London stated that the only tender received for the New Guinea properties was that of the Melanesia Company, Limited, of which Sir Harry Brittain, M.P., Sir Robert Anderson, and Mr. Brett, of Melbourne, are the directors. Its capital is £110,060. It was then understood that, though there was some German capital, the control of the company was completeij British.]
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 November 1926, Page 9
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141MELANESIAN COMPANY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 November 1926, Page 9
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