IS SLIPPING

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 5

IS SLIPPING

Young Girl With Chinamen BUT STILL HOPE

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Sydney Rep.) Bereft of both father and mother, a pretty, fair-haired girl, only, 20 years of age, admitted at the Central -Police Court, Sydney, when charged with vagrancy, that she had lived for a fortnight m a Goutburn Street boarding-house, where there were 30 Chinese. "ARE you prepared to go to the Sal- ■ vation Army-Home if I give you the clrinee?" asked Mr. iLaidlaw, S.M. "Yes," replied the girl, quietly, and left m the charge of an officer to spend three months at the Stanmore Home. Constable Finn stated that he saw the girl — Enid Campbell — one morning coming: out of the hoarding-house, which is situated at the corner of Crown and Goulburn Streets. "The place Is a boarding-house and stables," said the constable. "When she saw me she ran inside again, and came out a little later with some lemons." "What were you doing m there?" he asked. _, "Buying lemons," she replied; ■- and when questioned as to her mode of living, the girl replied that she had been there for a fortnight, with a large number of Chinamen. Her mother and father were dead,