PACIFIC PHOSPHATES.
NAURU AND OCEAN ISLAND. AUSTRALIA'S PROPOSALS. A. and N.Z. MELBOURNE. Sept. 25. Mr. W. M. Hughes, in the House of Representatives, moving the second reading of the Nauru Bill, said that Australia's phosphate requirements were 200,000 tons annually. The question of acquiring the interests in the island had yet to be dealt with. He was not prepared to admit that the British Phosphates Company had title to the deposits.
It had been suggested by the company that the Government should also acquira Ocean Island, which he favoured. He concluded by saying that if New Zealand did not accept the agreement now before them, the question of acquiring Ocean Island shr-nid be dealt with by Australia and E iiain.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17275, 26 September 1919, Page 7
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