MACQUARIE ISLANDS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON. September 3. In answer to a question by Mr Clark in the House to-<lay about the Macquarie Islands, the Prime Minister said that complaints had often been made about the man ner in which Mr Hatch treated then men ne employed on the Macquarie Islands, in that ho left them on the island longer than he should, and without proper supplies for the time they were left there. The Marine Department had on several occasions had to send down a steamer to relieve them. Some years ago negotiations were carried on between the New Zealand and Tasmanian Governments on the subject of the island being transferred to New Zealand The Government of Tasmania was willing that the transfer should be made but the Parliament of that colony did not agree.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3105, 17 September 1913, Page 12
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