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Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright PANNING. ISLAND! ;■' 'SYDNEY, December 3. •■Mr Mil ward, representative of the Pacific Cable Board, states tliat the sale of 'Fanning Island'has no Imperial significance. It simply'relates to the sale of Fanning Maud' copra estate, which does not jnean the whole island. The fact that the estate' absorbs all bub. about 40 acres of the island does not affect the and the Pacific Cable Board's pass-redon is untouched. The purchase of the .estate by the French Catholic missionary who.ranks second to Biehop Vidal, of Fiji, has no religious .significance either, as it is .known that the missionary was only the ; nominalpurchaser for some one else who already possesses large trading " -'hi thn. island. .... LOCAL OPTION ,COURT, /,','. ■ :. In connection .with .the points raised, '■' the President bftho Local Option Court' decided.. that ..as the Gazette', nolace was published notifying that reduction was; carried in ce;rt'a.ih. ;,■ electorates,. reicLucifcibn has not beer, nullified. "'. / '..'■■ : Received '0.28 a.m., \Decembei v 3ikl. ; ' : .; very: -hot weather,-, =:, ; ''" There was hot weather throughout the State to-day; at. Bourkei.litjvas 112 die-' grees in the sun. \. \ -
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13459, 4 December 1907, Page 5
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