REFUGEES IN CHRISTCHURCH
SUGGESTION DENIED (By Telegraph—Special to "The Mail") \ CHRISTCHCRCH. 18th July. An emphatic denial of the suggestion that some of the refugees from the West Coast have been mentally affected by their experiences was given by a member of the Mayor's Relief Committee to-day. Mrs J. S. Neville referred to it as "another of those rumours." The hardest part of the relief work, she declared, was righting rumour's and adverse suggestions. Some of the women were certainly very nervous anil had been in a hysterical condition when they arrived in Christehureh. One of them was still in such a condition that she snatched up her children and rushed .outside as soon as she felt an earthquake beginning, but .Mrs Neville pointed out that any number of women who had never been out of Christehureh were just as bad. She herself got outside every time there was a 'quake. Councillors A. I. Kraer and Elizabeth McCombs, who are co-workers with Mrs Neville, .concurred with her remarks.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 19 July 1929, Page 5
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