SEEKING A FORTUNE
WEALTH ON BEA BOTTOM ON NORTH AUSTRALIAN COAST United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, May 30 A pearler, Mr C. B. Alexander, who claims to have lived for 25 years on a remote stretch of the North Australian coast, has returned to London —which he left at the age of 16— to persuade others to join him in seeking a fortune. Mr Alexander has told the Society for the Preservation of Empire Fauna about wealth allegedly lying on the bottom of treacherous seas, and lie has exhibited a film showing natives fishing, dancing and sailing canoes. Mr Alexander is interesting various societies in a stretch of coast he exploited in the north, and he is urging a scientific investigation with a view to establishing a settlement near seas which, he claims, are full of potential weallli. particularly pearls. He told the society that he sold one pearl for £3200. The audience included Lord Moyne, who showed films of wild life in the Antipodes, and who Is the author of a book dealing with Polynesian adventure*
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20512, 31 May 1938, Page 9
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178SEEKING A FORTUNE Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20512, 31 May 1938, Page 9
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