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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1926, Page 4

77 YEARS IX THE WOE KHOI'SK. LOXDOX, Jail. 2. Miss Mnrv Fuwell, aged 94. has spoilt her 7otli Christmas in Billoricav, Ksscx, workhouse, where she took up her reside nee when she. was about J 7 years of a#o. •She declares that slio has always felt so rom fort able that she has had no desire to leave. She is a native of fngravo. hut has rarely left the hon.se to visit her ohl village, and know- very little of the ways of the world. She is still hale and hearty, and takes walks in the grounds and enjoys her meals. Mr Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, stated in May last that the average gross cost- per inmate in Poor Law institutions for the venr 1923-tM was £OS 10s. CHARLES’S 300 TOYS FOR HOSPITAL. LONDON'. Jan. 2. ’ From Charles to the children” was written on a card accompanying a cot full of toys received by the Charing Cross Hospital, Strand. W.C. There were more than 300 toys in the cot. and they were brought for the hospital by an 18-year-old porter. Charles, who works in a block of llats at Clapham. SAW ‘•There is little that we know of Charles except that he is very fond of children and bought the toys for them out of money he would ordinarily have spent at. kinemas,” a hospital official said to a reporter yesterday. Charles is known to have been saving since March for the children’s sake. The cot containing the toys he made himself.