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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 136, 9 June 1909, Page 8

Tin thousand pounds in wages will be paid within the next six months to forty New Zealanders who will be discharged from H.M.S. Pioneer, now in port at Wellington. These men joined the Pioneer five years ago, under the Imperial Naval agreement of 1903. During the time they have been on the Pioneer they have received the "Home rate" of pay as pocket money, and for incidental expenses, while the additional money which is paid to them to make up the colonial rate has been banked to each man's credit by the Admiralty. Each of the men has the sum of £250 in the ■bank, which he can draw the moment his five years' service has been completed. They are all young men. Commander Blunt remarked to a "Times" representative:—"They are grand material, and it is a pity that under the agreement they cannot re-enlist. At Home they do not count a bluejacket a man till he has served his five years." Real Maltese scarves, beautiful goods. A warehouse stock of hundreds of these beautiful silk scarves, to be cleared out •ft less than half price, from 3/11 to 42/, et Grey and Ford's great sale of Robt. Malcolm'ft salvage •took.—(Ad.)