PARENTS OF CHILDREN
Letter, But No Address (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, MAY 21 A letter, with no return address, has been received by Auckland child welfare authorities from the parents who left their five children in the city while they travelled to Australia. The Auckland district Child Welfare Officer (Mr K. J. Flint) confirmed that he had received a letter from Mr and Mrs J. Sabine last week. “It gives no return address and no indication that they are coming back to New Zealand,” Mr Flint said. Mrs Sabine, a former British and New Zealand night club singer known as Lee Jones, was located with her husband in Perth earlier this month. Mr Flint said the letter basically repeated the sub-, stance of newspaper stories J about their plight, and how they came to go to Australia ' in the first place. When their parents left the 1 city in February last year, the 1 three girls and two boys in I the family, aged from two to < 11 years, were placed in a nursery. Two foster homes ; have since been found for ' them in the New Lynn district j 1
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19700522.2.45
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32303, 22 May 1970, Page 5
Word Count
190PARENTS OF CHILDREN Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32303, 22 May 1970, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in