DEPENDENTS OF SEAMEN.
WiKO SHOULD PAY? GOVERNMENT OR SHIPPING i COMPANIES. (United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Replying to a request that th > Government supplement the Imperial ■pensions to dependent's of seamen lost' in the Wimmera, Sir James Allen ask<yl the deputation why the Government sliolud do this. ' The .shipping companies were the responsible parties. -He did not know what profits* thy were making, l.ut it was their place to look after their own seamen. He won hi put the rn/mtst * before Cabinet, but the case for . the r. quest wa.s slender.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 164, 9 July 1918, Page 6
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92DEPENDENTS OF SEAMEN. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 164, 9 July 1918, Page 6
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