MARBLE PALACES TO LET.
RENTAL OF £2 10S PER MONTH.
Sydney, July 6. A request by Air. Somerset Maugham, a well-known English author and playright, whois visiting Australia for information concerning a forgotten island oi 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 proceeds oi 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 entirely disappeared, and the marble palaces, now in the hands of 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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Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1921, Page 7
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145MARBLE PALACES TO LET. Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1921, Page 7
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