SALE OF ISLANDS
STATEMENT BY PACIFIC CABLE BOARD. By -Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, November 17. Mr Milward, manager of tbo Pacific Cable Board, referring to tbe cable reporting that a British-Canadian syndicate had purchased Fanning and Washington Islands, explains that evidently this means that a syndicate has acquired estates co-extonsivo with tho area of the islands, but that that cannot ho tho case with regard to Fanning Island, where tho Pacific Cable Board has secured a plot for a landing station which is vested in them for fifty years.
Such acquisition as reported would not alter the nationality of the islands, and Mr Millward therefore fails to see tho international significance of tho purchase. ‘
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7961, 18 November 1911, Page 5
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113SALE OF ISLANDS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7961, 18 November 1911, Page 5
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