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Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 10002, 4 May 1925, Page 5

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WAR WIDOW’S SAD PLIGHT.

SYDNEY. April 17. “I feel I am going quite silly. 1 have to put my hands to my head it seems to burst. I owe £lo- oil my furniture, and the rent has to be P ‘“ Owing to an influenza attack, I can scarcely crawl about. My boy and 1 are half starved,” • These -are extracts from a pathetic letter, asking for help from a war widow, with an invalid son, received by the State executive ot the K.b. and S.I.D. last night. The general secretary said the case was a very sad one, and the executive passed a grant of £s', regretting that its finances prevented it doing m In her letter, the widow added that the mission sister called at her house once a week. She did all she could to help, but the parish was poor, and it could not do much “The mission sister.’ the lettei went on, ‘‘says a prayer, and tells us to trust in God. I do so. The little bov sleeps with a Testament under his pillow, ‘Trust in God’.’ I read my Bible every night, and pray for a change in our lives. I have to - hear all. It is very hard. 1 have, not been able to help myself for a long time, and that is why I am so weak. “The league has always done its best for us.-X cannot call at the office lamso weak, and it is a long way. X had not oven a stamp to post this letter until I borrowed one tonight.”: .