The case of a returned soldier-farmer war, referred to by '■counsel at the- WanganuT Magistrate/:: Court:last Friday in the hearing of a civil action It. war, stated that • the' man lived in a, very simple manner, and during the first, year on his property did not kill a single sheep ; for .food. Ho had] -beep very hard up indeed,, and-had lived on hush pig aud. deer, which ho managed to kill. The man was only 16 miles awa.y- from -town,’ but had not visited it. once, in three years.;. In .fact, ho .hafl no clothes suitable for him to go to tijwn in/
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 July 1924, Page 7
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