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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 August 1924, Page 7

A respectable-looking man, 66 years of age. appeared .at the Auckland Court, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., to show cause why he had not complied with' an order of the court to make payments off a debt (reports the Star). The story he related was a sad one. “1 was born here. 66 years a "°> ’he said. “I went to school on this very spot—it was a Wesleyan bunday school, also day school. ]am nearly blind, live in a. little shed on two meals a day, and do a bit op "bootTopainng when I can get it.” “Have you no family?” asked Mr. Hunt. My three ..sons went to the. war,” was the reply; “two of them never came bade, and the third was seriousy funded. One of the sons wa« killed alongside the man to whom I owe this money.” Mr. Hunt: ‘'Have von no old-age. pension?” “No. sir, 1 was too proud to ask for it. ’ You j ’ va s onro a Justice of the Peace, and am a Mason.” “No order. - ’ Said Mr. Hunt. “You go and get. the oldage pension. Y’ou have earned it, and it s no use being hard up because von do not like to apply for it. Get tfiat pension—you are entitled to it.”