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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3658, 28 June 1927, Page 1

“We arrived in this country nearly four years ago, twelve of us, with no father, but with a true British mother,” writes “A grateful ‘Homie’” to the “Auckland Star.” “We just came prepared for any fate, and I should not like to say ho w took any job, and weTe' : only idle four days. We both took to road digging under canvas, and day after day worked with bad hands. We found the New Zealanders the best and 'whitest’ chaps possible. My sister (a clerk at Home) went into service, where she had good wages, good food, and the kindest of employers. Our mother went into the suburbs with five younger children. Now we are all together again in regular work and buying our owu home. We could not have done this at Home in fifty years. My mother oft-times says ‘God bless New Zealand!’”