STRANDED IMMIGRANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 6

STRANDED IMMIGRANTS.

AN UNFORTUNATE FAMILY. DESTITUTE AT WHANGAREI. INQUIRY NEEDED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, Saturday. A case of hardship has been brought under notice, in which a family not long from the Old Country were, by a series of unfortunate circumstances, literally stranded in Whangarei. On a pouring wet day, the wife, with five little children " found herself absolutely homeless on arrival here. The Hospital Board's inspector secured rooms and bedding for them, pending the location of their own things, which were "somewhere on the railway." It proved to be one of those pathetic cases of excellent people nominated as emigrants, who, on their arrival wen not able, for a long time, to get work. The husband eventually got a Public Works job which took him away into the backblocks, and unaware of what had happened, he could not be communicated with. The people who made the nomination were themselves in a changed position and confronting hardship as a consequence of unemployment. On hearing of this case, Mr. W. Jones, M.P., for Marsden, personally investigated the circumstances with a view to looking into the way in which the scheme of nominated emigrants is being administered.