HAD NO LEASE
Recd. 6 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 29. When two members of the firm of Hancock and Gore, which was under the impresston it had secured a lease of a timber concession in New Guinea* visited the site they found that nobody knew anything about the concession, said Mr Ernest Eldridge Biggs, solicitor for the company, during the hearing of the Garden case, in a special Federal Court today. The company intended to pay £lOO,OOO for the lease and had already paid £50,000. The representatives had a letter signed “E. J. Ward, per J. S. Garden,” purporting to grant the concession.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 January 1948, Page 5
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102HAD NO LEASE Wanganui Chronicle, 30 January 1948, Page 5
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