Marble Palaces To Let.
■RENTAL OF £2 10s. PER MONTH. SYDNEY, July 6. A request by Mr Somerset Maugham, a well-known English author and playwright, who is visiting Australia for information * concerning a forgotten Island of romance in the Banda Sea, has elicited some interesting letters to the newspapers from mariners and merchants acquainted with the Dutch possessions. One gives details of the island of Banda Neira, where Dutch merchants in the sixteenth century erected enormous marble palaces out of the pioceeds of their flourishing nutmeg plantations and other spices, then highly valuable. A fascinating picture of the fragrance and beauty of the place is drawn, but its commercial value has almost entire | y disappeared, and the marble palaces now in the hands of the Eurasians, descended from slaves who were imported from Java, can, it is stated be rented at the equivalent of £2 10s a month.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1921, Page 2
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148Marble Palaces To Let. Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1921, Page 2
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