POTENTIAL ASSIST LOST
NEW SOUTH WALES CENTURYOLD REQUEST COST OF GOVERNING DOMINION Rec. 10.30 p.m. CANBERRA, Apl. 15. New South Wales had lost a potential yearly income of £1,000,000 in 1840 when it asked the Imperial Government to relieve it of the cost of governing New Zealand—£6oo a year—said the High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr J. G. Barclay, to-day He was acknowledging the presentation to the New Zealand Government of a copy of Captain Cook’s journal. Presenting the journal on behalf of the Australian people, the Prime Minister, Mr J. B. Chifley, said that the presentation would add one more link to the chain of friendship and respect 1 which bound the two dominions together. Mr J. S. Rosevear, Speaker of the House of Representativeis, said that since the original of the journal was purchased by the Australian Government only one other copy had left the country. This was presented to Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt by the late Mr John Curtin and was now in the library of the Congress in Washington.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26747, 16 April 1948, Page 5
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