KAWAU ISLAND.
THE ALLEGED JAPANESE OFFER. By Telegraph -Press Association. Auckland. August 15. A. J. Farmer, owner of Kawau Island, to-day handed over to the Official Assignee the paper promised when he made the statement at a meeting of creditors that he had been negotiating with the Japanese Government for the sale to them of Kawau. None of the papers refer to an offer by the Japanese Government. Two letters were written to bankrupt by his solicitors, another was forwarded to Mr. Nishimura, of Sydney, by the English Secretary at the Imperial Japanese Consulate-General, together with a letter he had received from Sydney. The solicitor’s letter to Mr. Nishimura set out Farmers’ title to parts of Kawau. The other two letters from Farmer’s solicitors were to Farmer, then in Sydney, and expressed the opinion that there was nothing to prevent Japanese labor being employed on Kawau. They stated that Japanes® could acquire freehold property in New Zealand.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1922, Page 7
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157KAWAU ISLAND. Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1922, Page 7
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