Just Name It And You Can Have It
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You Can Have It
New Guinea’s habit of pro ducing brand new islands from the seas occasionally, brought about a complication in De cember.
Territory Lands’ Title Com missioner, Mr. C. P. McCub bery, announced he was hav ing surveys made to find out whether the right owners were occupying land which came out of the sea near Vulcan Island, Rabaul, in the big 1937 eruption.
The new spit of land joined Vulcan to the mainland. 'The Administration suspects that natives who own the foreshore land may also be making use of the newly-born land, which is now Administration pro perty.
The problem to be solved is: Where is the dividing line?