CANTON CONTROVERSY
OWNERSHIP QUESTION NO OFFICIAL ADVICE (Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Asked to comment on the controversy concerning the ownership of Canton Island in the Phoenix Group, the acting-Primc Minister, the Hon. F. Fraser, said to-day that the Government had been unaware of the incidents referred to. When such information was received it would immediately be transmitted to the British authorities who were responsible for the control of the Pacific Islands. , . In the past year or two certain Pacific islands whose very existence previously had been ignored had come to be recognised as having great value. New Zealand, of course, was vitally interested in trans-Pacific aviation and questions concerning British sovereignty in the Pacific area had been the subject of representations to the Home authorities.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 15
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127CANTON CONTROVERSY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 15
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