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Nelson Evening Mail, 18 September 1916, Page 8

The Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr Hughes) stated recently that in view of the intention of the to call up men for training, and ultimately, if. the referendum gave an affirmative vote, to send them abroad for.'service at the" front, it was intended that the present moratorium should be extended as far as was found necessary. ", '.The present Federal moratorium should be extended as far as was found necessary. The present Federal moratorium., prevents distraint on the wives and female dependents of soldiers who have, volunteered and gone to the front, and extends the terms of mortgages on premises occupied by the families of dependents of soldiers. A somewhat similar moratorium has also been established by the South Australian Government. The "propofeal announced by Mr Hughes is to .extend the moratorium to'cover any person" called up under the compulsory provisioiis'of the proposed law who has incurred liabilities which his absence from Australia "will make it impossible for him to meet. If the States do not individually establish a moratorium on these lines, the Federal Ministry will take comprehensive action to cover the who'.e of Australia. Among the many accounts -of the happenings when the Tongariro struck on Bull Rock there is a hitherto unrecorded incident well worthy of mention (says the Bawke's Bay Herald). It was just aiter the vessel' struck' that a boat which a number of apprentices were endeavouring to launch was smashed', the result, it was thought, of striking'one of the many pinnacles of rock'which comprise "Bull ORock. The occupants' of the boat were left struggling"'j the water. From tine deck above the fourth officer (Mr A. J. uVngell) observed' the accident, and immediately manning another boat set off to the rescue. In the •meantime the plight* of the lads in the •water was a terrible one. The heavy swell washed some of them clean under the keel' of the vessel so that they emerged gasping for breath on the other side. "With much difficulty' Mr Austell succeeded' in rescuing all "but one of the, now drowning crew. The missing seaman, a mere lad', was driftini? awav- rapidly from the vessel, as could be judged from his cries for help. In spite of the fact that his own boat, whien had' also mot with an accident, was fast filling with water, the fourth officer set his men to row towards the drowning boy. Tt was only after rowing about two .miles from Bull Rock that he was saved. The •rescuing boat was now almost filled with ter ' aDC * e P ros P e ' ts OI keeping afloat were very poor. Suddenly something dark, was seen on the wa'ter. It proved to be an emptv boat, that had drifted from the wreck. The waterlogged' .boat was abandoned at the lltn hour, and after two hours' hard' pulling the fourth officer's crew managed to reach the wreck again.

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