An intwrcsliujj story, says the New Zealand lleraid, is being told of an offer 'made. some time as?o for one of the islands in the Haui-ahi 'Gulf. The owner Imd no desire to sell, but was surprised, so the story goes, to receive "it of a good prion for the island. It- was such an offer as mtelit never cm;v ajfain, hut was refused for reasons whHi no price could remove. Li'tie thought was sriven at the ito the nationality, or, for lie matter of that, to th ■ :ntmtions of the would-be purchaser, libnt recent events have attached si< irficance ro the fact that the offer was made on behalf of a German purchaser, mi l thai, he use to which the land was to he
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 190, 20 January 1915, Page 5
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126Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 190, 20 January 1915, Page 5
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