On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 41, 5 October 1914, Page 6

On the Sea

--BOMBARDMENT OF PAPEETE.

, FIRMS ANXIOUS CONfcERNffIC, THEIR INTERESTS.

: M l' i ß*»Bi. Awqctawoh.] Auckland, October 5. * ;".JSame Auckland firms have large in- ~ terests. in-Papeete. All .the important business, houses are on .the waterfront, and these include a large concrete building, erected by Mr A. B. J Donald, three years ago at a cost of

£7OOO. Almost a-djoiaing were the premises of a - German firm. The

. Donald Company have some hope that fie theirjbuilding is intact from the fact

that one could not be bombarded with-out-damaging the- other. The same firm is anxious regarding t their ■“schooner Tiare -Taporo, built at Auckland about a year ago. She was due to leave Papeete on a group-trading trip a day or two before the date of the bombardment