PACIFIC ISLANDS
Question of Ownership SYDNEY, July 11. Apropos the New Zealand reprejentations to Britain in regard to the citle of Canton Island, the Sydney Morning Herald says at leaBt two men here know the island well and describe it as small and featureless except for a harbour about eight miles in length. Captain A. Eobinson, formerly with cthe Burns Philp Company, visited the Phoenix Group in 18S2 in the Auckland barquentine Yesable. He feels that the Americans have some right to Howland and Baker islands as, tven in thbh6 days, big square notice boards pr6claimed them the property of somcbody called William, of Connecticut. The boards were erected there in 1840. Captain C. Menmuir, who visited the group thirty years ago, said: "I would have thoughl they were the last place In the world anybody would want."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 7
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138PACIFIC ISLANDS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 7
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