QUEEN INTERVENES.
OLD WIDOW'S HAPPINESS. LONDON, May 20. Mrs. Dillon Lewis, a 90-year-old widow, becaus-, of the personal intervention of the Queen, will be able to spend the rest of her days in peace in her Twickenham home. The Middlesex Council had decided to resume and demolisi. the house in connection with a road-widening scheme, and, though neighbours petitioned that Mrs. Lewis should not be disturbed, decided to go ahead with its plans. Then Her Majesty was informed of the case, and, at her request, the council agreed to defer the eviction for six months.
"We received a letter from the Queen, written in the kindest terms," her son said, "and we are most grateful for her interest and sympathy." Mrs. Lewis' husband was a friend of Messrs. Lloyd George, Keir Hardie and John Burns,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1932, Page 7
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