A PITIFUL STORY.
ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 22, Before the Timber Commission today, Mr Jennings read letters he had just received from a man and his wife, livirg along the Main Trunk line, who stated that they were on the verge of starvation and had a dying child. They were compelled to beg-a bit of fat from a neighbour to make a lamp to struggle in the dark "to get the child whatever we can catch for her." The man was unable to get wo r k, even though he offered to work for food only. Mr Jennings asked n witness before the Commission if these letters' represented the Actual state of affairs among the workers along the Main Trunk line. The reply was to the effect that the position set out was not overdrawn.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3196, 24 May 1909, Page 5
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141A PITIFUL STORY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3196, 24 May 1909, Page 5
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