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NZ Truth, Issue 137, 1 February 1908, Page 8

"The awfulness of poverty m. old i age was once more illustrated m the I case of 6ne Margaret Olsen* a wizened, yellow-faced, decrepit crone, who was before the Christchurch police Court, charged with being an idle and- disorderly, person. The real charge was pure, unadulterated penury, the old dame not possessing a copper m the world, < and not a friend, while her clobhes would be refused by any respectable scarecrow-. The unhappy mortal is far beyond the old age pension age, but as she has never ~been naturalised, Olsen is ineligible under the Act. The Charitable Aid Board Secretary, Norris, promised to accommodate her at the Jubilee Home, Woolston, and the frail mortal nj(ay spend her declining days there z