EVICTED!

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 1

EVICTED!

Myrtle and Her Kittens Must Go PATHOS IN KINGSTON STREET “I WHS just sitting there and I 'lian t know nothing till the camera went ‘click.’ ’* said little Myrtle. Myrtle has been guarding the family furniture outside a ramshackle fourroomed house in Kingston Street. Tnough Myrtle does not realise how serious the position is—for she is only six—the fact is that her parents have just been evicted because they are three weeks behind with their rent. Three weeks at 16s a week is £2 Ss—out unfortunately they can’t find it. Outside the house is piled an array o' furniture and bundles. Mattresses, crockery, boxes, bedding—they are all wan B** 8 ** higgledy-piggledy against the A Sun photographer went by with a amera this morning and there was lyrtle sitting on a box of family heir--1 i US, L sunning herself, with a blackn.^’^’hit 0 kitten in her arms. . "ave another cat, too.’’ Myrtle oia a Sun man, “but he took a fit night. His name is Possums, and « wants to sit in the sun to-day until he gets well.” ha^ yrt i es fa *her is 68 and he has a few da > s casual work durwhn e year. He worked on the for years until an accident fam-i heart out of order. He has a JJJJv four to look after. The son. .has had one or two casual i, , “ Ur ing the past nine months. He uarf2r ln * for w °rk down on the t ron * fo-day. Four of the elder v. a , nd girls are married. ? rJt 6 s m °fher looked tired and SS ' had been keeping an k pensi oner and a fisherman in alone? 6 to . hel P in the struggle 0 sa id. hut as the pensioner h'eln '2® only £ 1 a week, it d*id not been Very • muc h- The family have uw,* e ,fting assistance from the ‘T h » Boar(1 f° r over a year, to ,? n f know what we are going Th v she said- ® haniff came in as the Sun man Tint ? IKIn S. but Myrtle in her little p * , dr ess was too busy playing with s he d UmS • *° worr y about bailiffs, know ° eSn * Worr y because she doesn’t noH- U '* t "hat is going to happen to her