CROWN COLONY BOUNDARIES
AN EXTENSION. " ~ ■ By TelcErdpli-l'rcsa 'ABsoclaUon-CoDrrifrlit Melbourne, May 12.. ■Mr. H. Mahon, Federal Minister of Internal Affairs, received from the Tlish Commissioner of the Western Pacific (Sir Ernest li. Swcet-Escott), a proclamation providing for the extension of the boun-daries'-of'the Cimvn colony of the (HI, berfc and Ellice Islands, to include Ocean, Vanning,- and "Washington Islands. [The Gilbert and Illlice Islands, in the "Western Pacific area, incorporated with the Union Group and Ocean Island, are'n colony -comprising 28 islands, with an area of ISO square miles and ,\ population of .1200, including 300 Europeans and 300 Asiatics. The islands were ..proclaimed as a Uritisli protectorate in ISO 2. In 191S.tl.iu native Government's.expressed their desire for formal - annexation, and an Order-in-Council was gazetted on November, li in that year creating the Crown colony, which is under tlio jurisdiction of; Iho High Commissioner of the Western Pacific. Ocean Island, though mentioned in the above messago as being newly incorporated, is mentioned in Hazi'HV Annual as the headquarters of the colony.!
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2770, 13 May 1916, Page 7
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168CROWN COLONY BOUNDARIES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2770, 13 May 1916, Page 7
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