THE KINGSTON EARTHQUAKE.
FINANCIAL HELP TO BE" GIVEN., . ; ' ■By Telegraph Frets Atsociation.—Copyrisht. London, May 9. The British Government, has decided to give £150,000 for the relief of . the sufferers \by the Kingston, earthquake, and to lend £600.000 for rebuilding purposes. ; The above decision represents < what '.Sir Alexander Swet&enham asked for.' After the earthquake he was upending £100 a" day " ■ In immediate relief, but reported that then? were so many cripples and orphans, the re- ;> suit of the earthquake, that a, large suiiir would be necessary to provide for them. ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13485, 11 May 1907, Page 5
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89THE KINGSTON EARTHQUAKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13485, 11 May 1907, Page 5
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