NAURU
BRITAIN AND THE AGREE-
(By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association,
LONDON, July 28. The Australian Press Association lias been authoritatievly informed that newspaper cables from Australia imputing recalcitrance 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 output from Nauru is revisable at five-yearly periods, the first of which is 1925.
Mr Dickinson, British Phosphate Gofmmisisoner, is of opinion that Britain cannot afford to surrender her rights under the agreement because Nauru and Ocean Island nossosses 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 20 years’ knowledge of Nauru and Ocean Island deposits he considers they are sufficient for a hundred years.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 30 July 1924, Page 5
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