Family in a Tent.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 February 1921, Page 3

Family in a Tent.

♦ ' S TO FACILITATE A WEDDING. 8 i . “It is better to cause the postpones ment of a wedding than to condone an offence against childhood,” said Mr G. - V. Pearce at Davenport Borough Oounr oil, when consideration was given to a } | request from a father of four children 3 to be allowed to live with his wife and ’ family in a tent at Narrow Neck. ’ The applicant stated that the rooms i he now occupied were required by a i couple whose marriage had already b cu postponed through his occupation > of the premises. No landlord would give him a house on account of the children. He had promised' to leave his lodgings, and his proposal was to i camp on a site he had purchased until he could get two rooms erected'. Permission was given, conditional on sanitary arrangements being satisfactory. Mr Perry Taylor said he knew of a case where a man with nine children was told by a landlord that he had) no right to such a large tamily when his wages were only £4 a week. A member; And yet they say 'he cradles must be kept full.