ARRIVAL FROM TONGA
BOY COMES TO WORK ON FARM. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 11. Of slight build and with an infectious smile, Dick Hettig, aged 14, son of ,a Now Zealand soldier, now dead, who married the half-caste daughter of a German settler, arrived bv the Matua from Nukualofa. Tonga. He will leave to-morrow for Warkworth, where employment has been found for him on a farm by Mr N. G. Gribble, of the Youth Employment branch of the Labour Department. The boy wrote to Mr Gribble early this year on reading in a New Zealand newspaper that hoys were wanted for farm work. On his arrival ho was so astounded at his good fortune that he found it difficult to express himself. He is amassed at the size of the Auckland buildings. Mr Gribble said that residents of Nukualofa subscribed a sum of money toward the boy’s outfit, and the captain of the Matua handed him £l2 15s. There will be little or nothing taken from his wages to reimburse the committee. Mr Gribble cabled Nukualofa, stating that the boy would bo on the air to-night.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 12
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187ARRIVAL FROM TONGA Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 12
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