NEW GUINEA RIGHTS
CONCESSIONS SOUGHT BATAVIA, April 9. The Government of the Netherlands East Indies is considering the granting of a concession for the exploitation of the oil resources of North-West New Guinea to a corporation organised by the Royal Dutch Company and the Colonial Oil Company. Tho latter is affiliated with the Standard Oil Company and the Pan Pacific Oil Company, of California. Careful consideration is also being given to a Japanese application for a timber concession at the mouth of the Koetei river, in East Borneo. As the Japanese ask for the right to establish a harbor, the matter has been made one for the Customs and Navy and Army authorities as well as for the Forestry Department. ' A Japanese fishing concern seeks permission to establish a fishing station on the island of Sabang, as the central point for fishing in the Straits of Malacca.
The newspapers are asking what British neighbors will say if these concessions are granted,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 5
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