TRAGIC STORY
(Press Assn.—
mother's appeal for a paralysed son VICTIM OF THE WAR
-By Telegraph — Copyright)
Auckland, Friday. 'He was all right when he went into battle, hut he came out of it deaf and dumb. It is the war that is responsible for all his trouble." This plea was made by a woman almost 80 years of age in the Police Court to-day in telling' one of the saddest stories ever heard here. The woman had made an application for the committal of her Son to the ' Inebriates' Ho'me, but on appearing she" said, "Don't do anythirtg to him, please/' . The son is paf tly paralysed, prematurely grey," and deaf and dumb, a victim of the battle of Messines. The mother said his -war pension had been 'caiicelled beeause of his exces-
to keep herself and him on the old age pension. He had sold everything in the house to buy drink. After a discussion with the Magistrate the woman went to the dock and conversed with her son in the lip language. She announced that he was willing to go to the inebriates' island Before she'left ihe dock she em-
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 396, 3 December 1932, Page 5
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193TRAGIC STORY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 396, 3 December 1932, Page 5
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