A SAD STORY
DEAF AND DUMB INEBRIATE. (Per Press Association Copyright.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 2. “He whs all right when he went into the battle, but he came out of it deaf and dumb. It’s the war that is responsible for all his trouble.”
This plea was made by a woman almost 80 years of age-in—the —PoKcw'' Court to-day, in telling one of the saddest stories ever heard there. It brought tears to the eyes of solicitors and policemen. The woman had made an application for the committal of her son to the inebriates’ homo, bnt on appearing she said: ‘'Won’t do any. thing to him please,” The son ia partly paralysed, prematurely grey and deaf and dumb, and a victim of the Battle of Messines. The mother said hi s war pension had been cancelled because of his excessive drinking. She found it very hard to keep herself and him on the old age pension. He had sold everything in the house to buy drink. AfteT a discussion with the magistrate the woman went into the dock and conversed with her son, and, in lip ' language, she then announced that he was willing to go to the Inebriates’ Island. , > Before he left the dock she embraced him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1932, Page 5
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207A SAD STORY Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1932, Page 5
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