IMMIGRANT'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 10

IMMIGRANT'S DEATH.

STARVATION IN NORTH.

"ONLY ONE SIDE" GIVEN.

LETTER FROM EX-EMPLOYER.

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WHANG ARE I, this day. Fresh information regarding Dominic Nolan, the middle-aged Irishman who i died of starvation, whose skeleton c was found in the scrub close to the main i road, and who left a letter addressed t to "Dear New Zealanaers," is contained c ill a letter written by Mr. Norman S. 8 Mason, a fanner of Maromaku, to the ' "Northern Advocate." c "His letter is bound to touch the hearts of a number of people," gays Mr. Mason, c . "but he gave only one side of the question. I employed and kept deceased on my farm for about one year and eight 4 months, not for the amount of work he 1 was able to do, but because I took pity ' on him, as he was alone in a strange ' land. When he arrived here he had only been in the country about fifteen month--. < Landing in Wellington with only a few shillings, he had tramped most of the way to the Far North and back to here, and had varicose veins that had broken one of his legs. He had been given work a number of places, but had not been kept long in any of them. Why? Simply because there was so little that he could do. "Useless for Country Life." '1 told him many times it was a sin that he had been allowed to come out to this country at his time of life, having no money and no trade, and being unable to do a day's reaL hard work. It is hard for anyone colonial-born to realise it is possible for a man to have lived to deceased's age and be so useless so far U country life is concerned. Although only 49 at the time of his death, most people about here thought he was near 60. He 6aid in his letter that the employers are reaping a harvest through employing immigrants at a low wage. Well. I pity anybody who is trying to break in a man of his age. Nothing is mentioned about the chances he had as a young man. or the position some of hiown people are in at Home at the present Unit', like many of the well-educated men we liavo in this country. Money would litivtt onlv boon a curse to him. as he had no Idea of looking after it. The circum- • Itttiorn of iloooaaotl's death are imlliolie. II mtt-it b»» remembered that lltnt ti tilt) t IttiUnltmln of UU % H |U tllij WMltUry who ilul not have nearly a* g oot '| •k ohitnue wlibii vuiiiife' a» Nolan did. vet nutria gooti and uow own ooiufort•W* V'mps of theiv own," J