TO BE REUNITED
FATHER AND FAMILY.
RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND. MOTHER AND CHILDREN. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, May 20. A mother and her six children, stranded in Dublin, are to be helped to return to their homes on the other side of the world. Their fares will be paid by the New Zealand Government, but repayment is guaranteed by Dublin folk, who have subscribed £180 for the purpose. ■ Three years ago Mrs. Roberts came tj Dublin to see her father before he died. She. had come from New Zealand on single tickets with her children, hoping that she might find work for her exsoldier husband. ■ Her relatives helped her and her husband sent her money which he earned by temporary work, but eventually she had to apply for public assistance. At a meeting of the assistance board it was decided to make up the £20 balance of the fares, so that the Roberts' family could be reunited.
Mrs. Roberts met her husband in London during the war when she was a young Irish nurse and he a New Zealand soldier.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 5
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