AUSTRALIAN MIGRANTS
farewell~to"blind man SCENE IN ENGLISH VILLAGE LONDON, Ist .Tune. A blind basketmaker, John Brady, aged GO, who is leaving for Australia with three families belonging to Durham and the mining village of Towlaw, is among the 700 migrants on the Hobson’s Bay. Brady, who Was nominated by a sister residing ,a.t. Brisbane, (surprised ,tlio local shipping agent by offering to finance three families, consisting in all of 12 persons, even buying their outfits, as they were poverty stricken owing to distress due to the strike.
Brady is a most popular local char acter, and when he entrained at midnight for London 1000 villagers and a brass band turned out to give him a send-off.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 10 June 1927, Page 7
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116AUSTRALIAN MIGRANTS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 10 June 1927, Page 7
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