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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14984, 11 August 1919, Page 6

The total realised, by the sale of the pearls sent to the .British Red Cross Fund is no less than £96,000. The expenses of administration^ including the stringing and sale of the pearls, were le3s than 2 per cent, of the whole amount received. "There is.no intention on the part of the New Zealand Government to be parsimonious when considering th& amount of the gratuity to b£ paid m respect of service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force," Sir James Allen wrote recently m a letter to Mr J. D. Sievwnsrht, of Wellington. -"The gratuity, will be on as liberal a scale as possible., i • , nill u. , rememheßfd . that the finan--01.1l obligations of the Dominion require to be. considered, and due regard given to what the country can really afford:"