DISTRESSING CASE OF A WOMAN
WHOSE HUSBAND HAS ENLISTED / 1 (BT TELFORAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) \ _ HAMILTON, 25th June. '.' A distressing case came under the notice 1 of the Waikato Patriotic Committee when a married woman living in a. back district in the King Country complained that her husband had joined the Expeditionary Force, leaving her with five young children, the eldest of whom was only nine. Creditors were pressing her for amounts totalling £40, while her condition would shortly entail the engagement of a nurse. She asked the committee to have her husband sent back. Living so far back made food very dear, and she did not know what she was going to do. The chairman said he had made representations to the Group Commander concerning the case, and the husband had assigned the wife 4s per day from his pay. While grateful for small mercies, this was insufficient to keep herself and children. It seemed to him that the man who would leave his wife and family in such a position was better away. It was decided to make enquiries into the case with a view to affording
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 8
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188DISTRESSING CASE OF A WOMAN Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 8
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