For Hearing
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Waria Synd. Claim Up
r[E claim by powerful American and Swedish interest for re cognition of claim for land which it says it has rights over in New Guinea (see Feb. PIM) will come before Mr. C. P. McCubbery (Commissioner of Titles) in Port Moresby on May 25.
A concession over a large section of NG mainland was granted in July, in Berlin, to Waria Syndicate, formed by Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen.
After World War I, a large pro portion of Wahlen’s Waria Syndi cate shares were sold to Ragnar Erfass, Swedish national, of Stock holm; but the Warburg family re tained its interests. In 1922, the Administrator, Rabaul, informed the syndicate that the Australian Gov ernment did not recognise the con cession. Consequently, the German interests in the Waria Syndicate were not expropriated.
The Morobe goldfield (which is in the area claimed by the Syndicate) was opened up under leases granted by the Australian authority.
The Warburg-Erfass interests were preparing to bring their claim before the International Court at The Hague when World War II broke out.