HASTINGS BOROUGH LOAN.
AND MR. POYNTON'S TELEGRAM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! , Napier, March; 27: The following is a copy of the .'tele? "gram received'by the Hastings"Borough, Council from the'superintendent'of the. State Advances Department:—"Town. Clerk, ■' Hastings;— Provisional approval of £5000 postponed pending further particulars being supplied.—J. W. Poynton, superintendent." The wording of the telegram,' aB given to a reporter by the town clerk, was:—"Eight-five thousand pounds'loan granted provided that further particulars be supplied—Poynton." The town 1 clerk was then speaking from memory, the Mayor having taken the original- telegram with, km to Wellington. The omission of the word "postponed"' from the particulars given to the press representatives was the cause of the misunderstandings which took place before the position was made clear by the Prime Minister
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 776, 28 March 1910, Page 9
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124HASTINGS BOROUGH LOAN. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 776, 28 March 1910, Page 9
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