EIGHT IN BOAT’S CABIN
POOR FAMILY'S HOME. SEVEN YEARS WITHOUT HOME Unable to find a house, a married couple and six children are living in a cabin, 10ft by 6ft., on a boat in the River Itchen at Southampton. The parents take turns sitting up at night keeping the rats away. Their eldest child is 16 and the youngest three months. The latter was born in the cabin. The parents have always to be ready to rush to the rescue of a child who mav have fallen into the water. The father. Mr J. Welch a fitter's mate, said yesterday, “J have been trying for seven years to get a house.' Now 1 have had notice to leave the boat, but I can find no alternative accommodation.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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127EIGHT IN BOAT’S CABIN Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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