STORED BELONGINGS FOR SEVEN YEARS
UNFORTUNATE IMMIGRANT HARBOUR BOARD’S CHARITY Having found no home in which to put her belongings, a woman who landed in Auckland from overseas in 1920 stored them with the Auckland Harbour Board. Each week since then she has tried to find a place. Now, when she can lift them from the shed, she finds another difficulty. The storage bill amounts to £2B 8s 9d, and this amount is beyond her finances; all she can raise is £lO or £l2.
The position was explained to the Harbour Board yesterday. “I think it would be a gracious act if we let her have the goods for £7,” said the chairman, Mr. H. R. Mackenzie. “It is quite evident that the lady has had difficulties.”
Mr. A. M. Laing even suggested that as a lot of the goods must have perished. the woman should be given them for £5, but the board thought that this was taking charity a little too far.
The reduction of the rates to £ 7 was made.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 53, 25 May 1927, Page 1
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