THE PREMIER AND THE TUTANEKAI.
The Promier denies a statement contained in a letter in The Dominion yesterday that, as he used the Government steamer Tutanekai for ploasure purposes recently, repairs could not be effected to the Cook Strait cables. -Sir Joseph Ward,states that when the Tutanekai loft Wellington all the cables were working. The. steamer was used last month, to take; the Prime Minister to Onehunga on important business with • the Governor'. a.nd Admiral. On her return sbe wont Smith, and Sir .Joseph and Lady Ward and family wero on board . when - bFio made a trip round about Stewart . Island. Sir Joseph states that he had always made it-n. practice to pay for everything whirli ho' and his staff and his family have received on board Government steamers and trains, arid ho paid, his- own 'travelling expenses,' and also those of his family party with him during the past fortnight. ' When ho was at the Bluff last Wednesday, word was received that there was a fault in one of, the Cook Strait cables, and he at once gave orders that the Tutanekai was to _ return ' North and effect the necessary repairs. s
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 6
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193THE PREMIER AND THE TUTANEKAI. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 6
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