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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42745, 8 July 1905, Page 3

A reporter in company with Mr H. Ell, M.H.K. unearthed a remarkable case. They visited a cottage in the “ slums ” area of the city one evening, one of a iow of seven small cottages. The front was dark and a knock at the door produced only a subdued scuffling * inside. The visitors went around to the back and, a second knock evoking no answer, they accepted the invation of an open door and entered the kitchen. It was a small bare room.. The range showed the blackened remains of a fire, and at a table on which a candle was burning were seated four children. The eldest, a boy of ten years, was holding on to a tiny girl of two. Opposite him were a girl of nine years and a boy cf five. The children were completely alone. Their father lives at Gore, and their Mother had left home in search of work, and had been absent for some days,