BOY FROM TONGA
PLACED ON A FARM. BY N.Z. LABOUR DEPARTMENT. [Per Press Association], AUCKLAND, August 11. Of slight build and with an infectious smile, Dick Hettig, aged 14 years, the son of a deceased New Zealand soldier, who married the halfcaste daughter of a German settler, arrived to-day by the Matua from Nukualofa, Tonga. He leaves tomorrow for Warkworth, where employment has been found for him, on a farm by Mr. N. G. Gribble, of the Youth Employment Branch of the Labour Department. The boy wrote to Mr. Gribble, on reading in a New Zealand newspaper that boys were wanted for farm work. Mr. Gribble said that residents of Nukualofa subscribed a sum of money towards the boy’s outfit, and the Captain of the Matua handed him £l2 15 There will be little or nothing taken from his wages to reimburse the Committee.
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Grey River Argus, 12 August 1937, Page 2
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144BOY FROM TONGA Grey River Argus, 12 August 1937, Page 2
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