APPEAL FOR FUNDS MADE
An appeal to the public for funds to finance a voyage to New Zealand to distribute among the Indians there all modern conveniences of civilization has been made by Dr. Franklin and Mr. Alex. Dalrymple.
A pamphlet Scheme of a Voyage to Convey the Conveniences of Life, Domestic Animals, Corn, Iron, &c., to New Zealand ” — has been distributed. “ Those who think it their duty to ask for daily bread and other blessings from Heaven should regard it as an equal duty to distribute those blessings when they come to hand to those less fortunate than themselves,” said Dr. Franklin last night. These Indians, he continued, were destitute of corn, fowls, and all quadrupeds except dogsit appeared that the cupboards were so bare that at times this brave and generous race had nothing to eat but each other. When the necessary money was raised, it was intended to send to New Zealand such conveniences of life as fowls, hogs, goats, cattle, iron, &c. (it is suggested that the ship chosen will be named “ Noah’s Ark II ”).
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Korero (AEWS), Volume 2, Issue 14, 17 July 1944, Page 17
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179APPEAL FOR FUNDS MADE Korero (AEWS), Volume 2, Issue 14, 17 July 1944, Page 17
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