STRANGE HOME.
TW O MOTOR CASES! PLIGHT OF TIMARU FAMILY. (BY TELEGRAPH — £ PREBB ASSOCIATION.) _ TIMARU. July 12. Seven children between the ages of two and fourteen, years appeared, in. the Juvenile Court to-uay before Mr-Mos-ley, S.M., charged with being children whose parents were in indigent, circumstances and unable to support them The evidence showed that the family was living in two motor cases as a home. The father was almost blind, and was unable to work, and they had been existing on charitable grants and by the help of outsiders. Th.o Government had granted £BSO for a house, but the builder had not completed the job on account of no progress payments being received. The magistrafe said the case was the most difficult one he had met in h-s experience, and he adjourned the matter for one month to see how the siti at.on developed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 July 1924, Page 5
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145STRANGE HOME. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 July 1924, Page 5
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