LONDON’S KINDNESS
■ ' - A DATHKnG INSTANCE, (United Press Asaocin Jon—By Electric • Te*egraph—Copyright). h ■ ‘' , • LONDON, October 20. " The great kindly-heatt' in London,' the loneliest place in the world, was tcfichingly revealed to-day at Paddington: : ’’ “v; ' A widow of, 68 years had appeared at tho Court for failure to - pay her rent of ! ;t]hree ehillirigs weekly.- Vllie arrears amounted to £l2. It was revealed ithat her room was.. spotlessly clean, ■ and that she was . living on 8s weekly, secured .by scrubbing- floors. ’ ‘‘One of the saddest cases ; in 'i.ny experience,” said the Magistrate. < v : -
To-day, 'the scene at her place was transformed. Her rent had bean paid, there was a spare rootn -full with food and she had her fire alight, with tons of coal available. There was one huge packed' with food. The widow saidb “A lady in a motor; car brought it. She gave me this lovely letter too, with £5 inside.” 'The. letter read.P “Dear Mrs Towers, —Will you please accept : this hamper, yvith good wishes, from Nellie Melba.” do not know the lady,” said the Widow, “but isn’t 1 she kind!”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1929, Page 5
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