SHIPWRECK RELIEF
SOCIETY’S ACTIVITIES A CONFISCATED DONATION (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, (his day. A summary of tho work of the New Zealand Shipwreck Relief Society for the last 30 years, presented to a meeting last evening, shows that relief granted to sailors and their dependants and passengers totalled £S3fis, with a special donation of £IOBS. Most urgent calls were the Manuka, £3222, and the Tahiti, £SIO. The purser of the Zoalandia wrote that in (order to savo the society exchange, ho had exchanged £32 collected on that boat and tho Ulimaroa into silver and was taking the package to tho society’s Auckland agents when the customs confiscated it, ho being fined a nominal amount. The society approved the secretary’s letter of sympathy with the purser, Erecting him to apply to the Treasury for a refund of the confiscated sum.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 5
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