LEVER BROTHERS
ACQUIRE MONOPOLY IN LIBERIA.
LONDON, January 14.
Messrs Lever Bros., tho well-known soap manufacturers, whose enterprises are already vast, have concluded an agreement with Liberia empowering a lease to the firm of twelve thousand square miles of. country, amounting to over a quarter of the area of Liberia, with monopolies over oil palms. The lease provides for the use of the land and in any form, and gives the firm the exclusive right to trade with tho natives.
Liberia is a negro republic on the coast of West Africa. The development of the country has been greatly hindered by laws prohibiting any but Liberian subjects from holding land. Until 1909 foreigners were prohibited from trading in the interior or anywhere except at the official ports of entry.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8330, 16 January 1913, Page 7
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129LEVER BROTHERS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8330, 16 January 1913, Page 7
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