IN DISTRESS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2498, 26 June 1915, Page 10

IN DISTRESS

PLIGHT OF A SOLDIER'S WIFE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, June 25. A distressing case came under the notice of the Waikato Patriotic Committee when a married woman living in a back district in the King Country complained that, her husband had joined the Expeditionary Force, leaving her with five young children, the eldest of whom was only ..nine. Creditors were pressing her for 'amounts totalling £40, while her condition, would shortly entail the engagement of a uurae. She asked the committee to have her husband sent heck. Living so far back made food very dear, and she did not. know what sho was going to do. Tho chairman 6aid he had made representations to tho Group Commander concerning the case, and the husband had assigned the wife 4b. per day from his pay. While grateful for small mercies,, this was insufficient to keep herself and children. Under the circumstances it 6eemed to him that the man who would leave his wifo and family under such circumstances was better away. It was decided to make inquiries into the case with a view to affording relief.