TIMBER COMMISSION.
* Per Press Association. Wellington, May 22. M Ike Timber L'ommiasiou to-day :Mr Jennings read letters just received 'from a man and his wife, who slated that they wcro on the verge of starvation. They had a dying child and wero compelled to beg a bit of fat from a neighbor to make a lamp to struggle in tho tho dark "to get the- child whatever we can catch for 'her." The man ivas imablo tor get work for food only. Mr Jennings asked a witness beforo the Commission if tticse letters represented the actual state of affairs among tho workers along the main Trunk line. The reply was to tho effect ithat tho position as set out was not over drawn.
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North Otago Times, 24 May 1909, Page 2
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123TIMBER COMMISSION. North Otago Times, 24 May 1909, Page 2
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