N.Z. Family's Fares A Saving
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)
LONDON, September 9.
An English town council has decided to pay the cost of sending a mother and her six children home to New Zealand—to save money.
The council, at Halifax in Yorkshire, unanimously approved the payment of £B5O for the family’s sea fares. Aiderman Winifred Oxley said that if the council had not done that, the children would have had to be taken into the care of the council.
“They would stay with us until they leave school, and that would cost us £22,700,” she said.
Until last year the family lived in New Zealand with
their parents, who emigrated from Halifax 18 years ago.
Then the mother became homesick and her husband paid for her and the children to go to Halifax to stay with a relative.
Recently the mother has taken ill and is no longer able to look after the children herself. Her husband, still in New Zealand, could not afford to pay the family's fares home.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31161, 10 September 1966, Page 2
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