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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1924, Page 1

A certain American lady wlm advertised her houses to let only to pc,•sons -vilh la rye families, writing to a friend in Auckland says: ‘*T wondered lunv the news of iny imusual proposition got into the page* of the •Auckland Star.’ I had hundreds of letters from all over the- United States asking was it really true hat T wanted children in my liounes? I have bought seven houses within a utoue’s throw of Lynn. Macs*, and 1 law in them forty-three children, ono family of ten, ono of etchfc, and in my fourroom tenements four and frro cldMren ee-ch. It is a dreadful thing the »ny the landlords art uhout al terming ohiVdron in their houses. They seem to think it a crime to have a family.’

Tn the course of his evidence in a ( ase eoncerniiiß n dent in lambs. heaid in the Dunedin Supreme Court (states the “OtatM Daily Times”). n witness who was called ns nil expert was asho< l, v Mr J. 1!. Cnllnn how old he tlioiigiit the iunihs were when he saw them in •Innuarv. 'Witness replied: “ About eipht months.” Mr Cnllnn looked surprised. and snt down, remarking;: T will leave it at that.” Tlis Honour. Tfr Justice Sim, addressing witness, said : “You say you have had TO years experience in farming, and yet you sav lambs which were dropped in October, were, when you saw them in Januaiy. eight months old. T think yon had heter go homo, Mr ” "> t,!CS ' i.tuer iii/iih , -ii then left the !>ox. and quickly disappeared from the precincts ot tm Court.

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