MEETING THE BAIRNS.
A PATHETIC APPEAL ARMY AND CHURCH RESPOND. FATHER TRAMPING THROUGH. WAS IT A HOAX ? (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A few days before the Rotorua arrived here the Salvation Army Immigration Department received, a request from the Cambridge (Waikato) branch, on behalf of a man named Mclntyre, to meet four young children and look after them till lie arrived. He had not enough money for his fare but was tramping through. An Army officer accordingly met ths steamer and was astonished to find. representatives of the Methodist, Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Anglican churches, all on the same mission in response to similar requests, also that there were no children of the given name aboard.
Major Middlemiss. the Army office] concerned, says he believes the requesi was bona fide, and that the childrer missed, the steamer. He had heard thai Mclntyre was taken ill and was ir Hamilton Hospital.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 215, 11 September 1929, Page 8
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