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: A DISTRESSING CASE. 11 ■ y PATRIOTIC CmrMITTEU TAKKX ACTION. HainiUoii, Lust Night. A distressing case came under the no'c tice of the. Waikato Patriotic Commit- *" too. when a married woman, living in '• a bade district of the King Country, e complained that her husband had joined 0 the expeditionary force, leaving her with live young children, the eldest of whom lS was only nine. Creditors were pressing c her for amounts totalling £-10, while " her condition would shortly entail the ,( ; engagement of a nurse. She asked the committee to 'have her husband sent 1; hack, as living so far -hack made food ' very dear, and she did not know what 5_ s she was going to do. The chairman said he made representations to the group commander on 10 the ease, and the husband assigned his wifo -is a day from his pay. While grateful for small mercies, this was insuiricient to keep the wife and children. . "Cnrior the circumstance-; it seemed to ,'• him that a man who would leave his wife and family mirier such circmn- ,,, stances was hotter away. It was decided to make inquiries into i the ease with a view to affording relief. 8 S'-.V "C.\M::i ■"'.■' AXD KAV IT PLAIN! 1 ]' •■; ;. dc'iclnr : T>\- f.'illwr Ah', and it - • ■.- ••:-'■-.-! : >■•-/>■;■ i\ from an original, ■c P.-'l':-d I'nriciihi. Trv i' 1 '.■'' r -ir a rVnv»c See (hut ith :'. :*. M uti > t hotels and sion'".
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 7
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236New Zealand. Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 7
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