LONE WOMAN’S FIGHT.
GOVERNMENT HAD “ALL THE GUNS.” SYDNEY, Jan. 6. “It was no good fighting. The Government had all the guns, and I was only a lone woman,” said Mrs H. Eccles who left for New Zealand by the Ulimaroa to-day. For 18 months Mrs Eccles refused to move from her home in the bridge resumption area at North Sydney, despite numerous notices from the Government. She was not satisfied with the Government’s compensation terms. Finally, while she was absent from home one day in October last, the sheriff had her furniture removed into the street. When she returned, her house —the last one left in the area — had been partially demolished. “I had to accept the terms then,” she said. Mrs Eccles, who disclaimed fighting out of; defiance or malice, but only for wliat slio considered her due, is the wife of a grazier living near Christchurch. Sho came to Sydney to save her house.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1928, Page 10
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157LONE WOMAN’S FIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1928, Page 10
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