NEW HEBRIDES CONTROL
NEGOTIATIONS FOR SALE BY FRANCE
AUSTRALIA INTERESTED LONDON. Tuesday. It is understood that a negotiator is now in London for the purpose oC offering to the Commonwealth the majority holding of French interests in New Hebridean properties. Realising the importance of this holding to Australian interests. the negotiator has obtained an ' extension of the option to sell until February 20. He says the Japanese authorities in Paris tlie keenest interest and are making enticing overtures. The negotiator has, however, decided to afford the Commonwealth the first refusal of the holding, which he claims virtually carries the proprietorial rights in the New Hebrides.
The New Hebrides. a group of islands lying west of Fiji, are administered jointlV by French and British officials. In 1927 the British Government appointed a Royal Commission “to report upon the position of British settlers in the New Hebrides, with special reference to any disadvantages under which they may be; working in comparison with French settlers.”
One point alleged is that the French can use cheap indentured Asiatic labour, the British cannot.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 896, 13 February 1930, Page 11
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