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‘Port of SpainGazette’ soldGleaner Trinidad Correspondent• .PORT OF SPAIN..-June 14: !The Port of Spain Gazette, 'Print* i . dad’s oldest newspaper, changed own- * , ership on June 7 at a public auction. : I A^group, comprising big business-;j men, and headed by Mr. George de ; Nobriga. managing director of 4the i Trinidad Coniolidated Telephone,] were, the only bidden for the Old j Lady of Vincent Street”, as the Gazette is called. It went for 150,001 dollars, (about £31,250).Others in the group are Sir Harold. Robinson, sugar baron. CommanrlerCharles Bis he, Director of. Messrs. Gordon Grant and Company, and. the Hon; Allan Storey.This is the ninth time that the 135-ycar*6ld Gazette has changed.; ownership. ” IThe Gazette was long considered ' f.he unofficial organ, of Roman Catho- !; licism in Trinidad, but judging from ! the composition of tht new owners.)’ / his policy is likely to undergo a-i irastic change.
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Kingston Gleaner

Kingston, Kingston, JM

Wed, Jun 15, 1955

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