TO SAVE MONEY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 January 1925, Page 5

TO SAVE MONEY

LIVED STARVATION LIFE. INSANE MAN’S CAREER. COLLECTED STREET RUBBISH. BY CCBLE —PBESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received Jan. 21, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 20. Maefarlane was 48 years of age. He was certified as insane. He formerly worked as a pattern cutter and lived a starvation life. He saved evei y penny. He had £IOOO and he lost £3OO in the Farrow’s Bank crash. He also had a number of shares and certificates that were now worthless. He, had apparently lost his mental balance, and wandered in the streets collecting rubbish and piling it in his room. A letter received from Now Zealand, written in 1910 by Sydney Barel, a child formerly living in the same building, stated: “I do not like New Zealand, and I wish I could return with mother and daddy to our little room at Islington. I miss the halfpennies and ice wafers you used to give me.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. It was cabled yesterday that the police had to dig a tunnel through a. barricade of rubbish which William Maefarlane had erected in a room occupied by him at Islington. He was found in a semi-conscious condition, dying of starvation. He was dad only in a loin cloth.