DIFFICULT CASE.
AN UNFIT IMMIGRANT. HOSPITAL BOARD’S /COMMENTS. (By Telegraph—Special to Star,)* WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. A 100 per cent unfit immigrant has been under the care of the Wellington Hospital Board, whose social committee reported that one of its cases was an unfit immigrant who had been sent out under approval of the New Zealand authorities at Home. A voice: Was he a soldier? Mr McCurdy said that he had been a soldier, and had been discharged as 100 per cent unfit. Since he had been here he, had been in the Pukeora institution. He was never, in any case, especially fitted as an immigrant, as he had been a clerk in a motor works. The committee had pronosecl to employ him at the Macarthy * Home, but he refused to do it, preferring to sit at home and nurse babies whilst his wife went out to work. That was one type of immigrant New Zealand was getting. The Rev. Van Staveren: One in a thousand. Mr McCurdy: Yes, but we have to keep them.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 November 1924, Page 7
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174DIFFICULT CASE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 November 1924, Page 7
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