SYDNEY AND THE FLEET.
The financial aspect of the welcome of Sydney's citizens to the American Fleet has been causing anxiety for some little time. At a meeting of the Citizens' Committee last week, the Lord Mayor said that £2,300 had been subscribed, and the subscribex-s numbered less than 250. He pointed out that in Auckland the citizens subscribed £3,000 in a tew hours, and inferred that Auckland would make a better show than Sydney if the citizens did not give more freely. The Chairman of the Decorations Committee said that the estimates had been cut down to the lowest possible point. The reports from the committee's officers regarding the attitudes taken up by the people on the route were not satisfactory. Some who had been approached declared that the function was unnecessary. Others hal said it was childish, and others had expressed the opinion that it was hysterical. A business man declared that it was shocking to see a leading bank give £5, and mer- j
chants of standing, nothing at all. Money is coming in piowly, and the position is anything but satisfactory.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 4
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185SYDNEY AND THE FLEET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 4
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