“CHRISTCHURCH TIMES” “SUN”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 June 1935, Page 4

“CHRISTCHURCH TIMES” “SUN”

TRIBUTES PAID Regret at the passing of the “Christchurch Times’’ and the "Sun, ’ which cease publication next Saturday, was expressed by speakers at a meeting of the Christchurch Tramway Board (reports the ‘‘Christchurch Times”). A motion was passed thanking the representatives of the two newspapers who bad from time to time reported the board’s meetings. The deputy-chairman (Mr E. J. Howard, M.P.) said that it was the last qecasion on which reporters from the "Times” and “Sun” would attend. None of tlic members of the board would rejoice, lie said, at the passing of the two newspapers. "More especially must one, feel the passing of the ‘Christchurch Times,’ formerly the ‘Lyttelton Times,’ ” said Mr Howard. "It has been connected with Christchurch and with Canterbury almost- since the day Fitz Gerald landed. The ‘Times’ has been one of the local institutions and we must feel its passing.” Mr G. T. Thurston also spoke.

Similar tributes and regrets have been expressed at meetings of other local bodies in Christchurch,

DESTITUTE FAMILY LIVING UNDER APPALLING CONDITIONS A WELLINGTON CASE (By Telegraph—Press Association) 1 WELLINGTON, This Day. , A description by two members of the Wellington Hospital Board of a visit to a small room iii a house in Taranaki street in which a destitute woman and four children were living in “an outrageous condition,” was given at a meeting of the Hospital Board. With reference to the housing shortage it was stated triat the board should “even go to the ( tent of commandeering some office in r. me pubiic building” for the family. The floor area of the bedroom which the family was living in was about seven feet by seven.' The woman' was sleeping there with four of her six children. There were rat holes in the floor, and they had to keep a dog in the room at nights to keep the rats from the children. The woman was deserted by her husband twelve months ago. The famiiv received charitable relief, but it was not sufficient for their needs. They received a loaf of bread and a quart of milk daily.

The chairman of the hoard said that the superintendent already had the matter : n hand.