Note 169 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
During the year ending 20th November, 1874, 50,182l. 15s. 6d. was received at the Seaman’s Savings-banks, and 45,964l. 9s. 10d. paid away, leaving to the credit of the seamen depositors, with interest, 81,116l. 1s. Since the money-order offices were opened in 1855, there has been received through these offices at ports in the United Kingdom and ports abroad, up to the close of 1874, 4,827,093l. 1s. 11d., and remitted to 804,208 persons the sum of 4,822,338l. 14s. 8d. See Parl. Papers, Seaman’s Savings-banks and Money-orders, 161, 21st April, 1875. I most sincerely trust that Government will do everything in its power to encourage and induce seamen to make more use than they now do of these most valuable offices. These and education, more than stringent legislative enactments, are the instruments whereby the power of the crimp is to be crushed, and our seamen elevated to the position of our mechanics.