Word: aukland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exchange; that independent speculators were said to be offering 2,500,000 lb. at 13½?; that Anaconda reduced its miners' pay 25? a day; that complete accounts of Rio Tinto Co.'s annual meeting in London last fortnight contained the speech of its chairman, Sir Aukland Geddes, in which he told with dramatic pleasure of how he and friends had defeated a scheme whereby U. S. interests (probably American Smelting & Refining Co., Guggenheim Co.) tried to gain control of Northern Rhodesian copper deposits...
...Stephen Victor Graham, U. S. Governor of Eastern ("American") Samoa. Most appreciative of all are the inhabitants of Western ("British") Samoa, mandate of New Zealand, eight of whom were killed by New Zealand police a fortnight ago. Last week the British cruiser Dunedin plowed through the South Pacific from Aukland, under orders to cow Samoans again. In Wellington, New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward looked owl-solemn above his waxed mustache and announced that "A firmer policy in administration in Samoa will be adopted...
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