IN DIKE DISTRESS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 150, 29 June 1928, Page 8

IN DIKE DISTRESS

AUCKLAND FAMILY ■ (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. . Attention was drawn on Wednesday to .the pitiful circumstances of a family at St. Paul street, where a man who is a returned soldier, his wife and three children are awaiting eviction because tho rent of the. houso is in arrears. The house has been stripped of bedding and furniture by bailiffs., The husband is out of work, and the rent is £6 15s in arrears.. . .'•.•■ "One would hardly beliovo wo are: living in tho twentieth . century when such things as this can-happen," said the Rev. G. C Scrimgeour, of the Methodist Church, who is interested in social work. He was speaking; of the foregoing case, and invited a "Star" representative to visit the houso. Tho visitors wore taken into a small- front room totally bare of furniture. On the floor a sickly man was lying on some sacks covered with an old coloured blanket. Whatever warmth* tho room contained came from a ■ small fire that was. burning -in tho grate. Tho man is suffering from a poisoned arm. Last Wednesday week . tho bailiffs . removed every stick of furniture and all bedding, and-' sinco then the man and his ivifo and threo children, aged two, four, and six respectively, havo existed with what help has been forthcoming from social workers.