CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 776

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At what date after their discharge

did they become a charge upon the Colony ? i.e. how long did the money in their possession last and how long might it have been reasonably expected to last?

The 28 men were discharged on the

23rd. December. Two of them that were Germans joined a Man-*

of-War of that nationality that happened to be in the

Harbour, and 12, mostly Italians, went to Singapore. I have

no record of what became of them there. Of the remaining

14, 5 were sent to Europe on the S. S. "Ben Lomond "on the

5th., 4, including two who had become destitute on the 9th.,

by the S. S. "Kintuck" on the 11th., and 4, including one

who had become destitute on the 9th., by the S. S. "Hyson"

on the 22nd. January

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a month after discharge from the

"Inkula".

When discharged the men had sums

varying from $173.37 in the case of Oreste Turbiglio, the

Chief Steward, to $59.52 in the case of Fredrick Brandt,

the Engineer's boy. Such sums which should keep men for a

considerable time in ordinary circumstances do not last

long in the hands of a paid-off crew in a port full of

temptations. It is sometimes as much as 2 months before an

opportunity offers of sending sailors to Europe as distres-

-sed British seamen and it was fortunate in this case that

the whole of the crew was disposed of within the month. I

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