TAIHAPE INDIGNANT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 286, 7 June 1909, Page 5

TAIHAPE INDIGNANT.

THE ALLEGED STARVATION ■■ CASE. V :■'■-■■■ ■' ■" ■ ■ ■ ■■; ■■(■ , i •-.•'.!■ [PfiEBB ASSOCIATION.} TAIHAPE, to-day. ' In reference to the allege^ starvation case, mentioned at the Timber Commission, tho^re.sult of inquiries show tho wife and child had certainly had a hard, timo; ...^ho jhusband was. not connected /with. the timber industry. . ife,, js . a, man. ,Jf;j).o -won't work, when h© had. ■.oj'firy- , chance. Tho family live . on , Ohura Road, . ten miles from Raetthi, whero the husband brought them from another district. While in, distressed circumstances, ho has received money and help in other ways, but he is an antiworker. There is strong resentment felt here and at. Raetihi at tho libel on the district "through sensational press headings. Tiif. case in entirely an. isolated one..