GOOD SAMARITAN ON 55/- A WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 19

GOOD SAMARITAN ON 55/- A WEEK.

Helping, when we meet them, lame dogs over stiles.

A nightwatchman who, having to support a wife and six children out of a wage of £2 15/ a week, yet acted the part of Good Samaritan to a man who was down and out, was highly commended by the coroner at Mltcbam recently.

Edward Henry Wnllaee, 48, a boot repairer out of work, who was found dead on tbe railway line, was then the subject of an inquest.

The nlghtwatchman, Albert Edward Bennett, said that he met Wallace 12 months ago. when he wai down and out. They became good paid, and the man lodged with witness, who "bought him papers and tobacco, and did everything he could to make him happy." The only reason for the depression which bad led to the man's death, said Bennett, was that be was out of work, and might think he was sponging on him, as witness had a wife and six children to keep out of a weekly wage of £2 15/.

necording a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind, the coroner complimented Bennett on the very handsome and really pally way in which he had acted towards Wallace, particularly having regard to his own large family and his not very high wage*.