UNWANTED CHILDREN.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1921, Page 7

UNWANTED CHILDREN.

PROBLEM OF HOUSING. A number of the Arawa’s immigrants have arrived at Wellington, and some of them have not been forming too high an opinion of the local apartment house landlady. Among the new arrivals was a section of a large English family of seven sons and twp daughters, which, in consequence of favorable advices from the first son who found his w T ay to the Dominion, has been steadily emigrating, with wives and offspring, until now the father and mother, six of the sons and one of the daughters are here. The Arawa’s detachment included one of the sons, with his wife and two small children, and he wrote asking that rooms might be secured for him. Other members of the family visited between* them over twenty addresses, at which rooms were advertised to let, and in eveiy case there was a flat refusal to let flip a married couple w'ith children. This family is now being accommodated on a sereened-in verandah until after the holidays, when the hunt is to be resumed dor an apartment house proprietress with some bowels of compassion. No doubt children are a nuisance in such places, but with houses unprocurable it is not easy to see what the parents can do.