PACIFIC ISLANDS
QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK, July 1L The New York “Herald” says: The British and American Gov* rnmeuts are considering the repetts that ft United States coastguard cutter landed men on Raker Island and Howland Island, and that it surveyed them as possible aerodrome sites. / It is thought in London that the party lauded erroneously, believing that the United States owned these, is.arnl.s, which may he . important landing places, even in the establishment ol an airway between Hawaii and Australia.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1935, Page 5
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