PAY DAY.
£80,000 DISTRIBUTED.
AUCKLAND,. August 11. Yesterday the sixteen paymasters of the fleet visited the Bank of New South Wales. Each was accompanied by a sturdy sailor carrying a suggestivelooking stout leather bag. Last week the pay day of the fleet fell due, and, as Uncle Sam's sailormen draws about the most liberal pay of any tar in the world, the pocket money of over 12,000 men is not a little item. For the purpose a store of specie had been collected at the bank, some from Wellington, and some arriving from Sydney, for probably the biggest cash payment ever made in Australasia. At a quarter past nine ConsularGeneral Prickett, of U.S.A., walked into the Bank, introduced the chief paymaster to the manager, and the process of counting out 80/000 English sovereigns began. The money is exchanged into American money on board, and probably a large part of it will filter back to shore and the coffers of the bank in the course of the week.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 11 August 1908, Page 5
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167PAY DAY. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 11 August 1908, Page 5
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