Brown River Lease
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An Unsurprising
Announcement
Brown River Lease to T. Flower
THE patience of Mr. Tom Flower has at last been rewarded: he has been awarded the Brown River timber leases, about 25 miles from Port Moresby.
Mr. Flower discovered this stand of timber several years ago but under existing regulations in the Territory was compelled to submit a public tender for it and to wait until officialdom graciously per mitted him to proceed.
Conditions of the lease are that he shall establish a sawmill within 12 months.
Mr. Flower has been in P-NG since 1926; before the war on the New Guinea side; and since the war, in Fort Moresby.
The lease is over 44,000 acres.