A NEIGHBOURLY ACTION.
WHEN PAY-DAY CAME ROUND. It is not only in matters of tho first importance' that; Governments are! called upon to help one another, a fact that was exemplified : a fe# days ago whilo tho JVost Australian Government's steamer lCwintuia was lying at',.Wellington.'-.: Payday came: round, and for liomo unexplained reason found, the captain of the Kwinaua unprepared. : There , were no funds in hard, and the! Minister, who had coino over in tho steamer (the Hon, \V. D. Johnson) had gone, up country, and could not bo commuuicated with. in time to meet- the emergency of the' moment. A crow of 45 men had to. bo satis-• fied, so that the captain lmd: a problem of-some'magnitude on hand. 1 In his' perplexity ho dccidcd to invoke tho aid of a. friendly power, and making a call upon the Hon. -,W.i F. Massey, explained, the position, and his difficulties. The Primo ■ tere stood; agreed .to give the assistance required, and supplied tho captain of'fho Kwihaiw with, a Treasury order for the necessary amount, something! over .£SOO. Tho captain thereupon went away satisfied,, and tho .'.members of his-crew wero' raon made perfectly happy..'
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 6
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193A NEIGHBOURLY ACTION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 6
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