A PITIABLE CASE.
Masterton, June 21. A pitiable case was brought under the notice of the Wairarapa North Benevolent Society this morning. A woman, whose husband was recently killed at Pleasant Point, Canterbury, and whose house and effects wero washed away by the Southern floods, was left penniless. Assho intimated that she had friends some where in the North Island, her passage was paid to Wellington, and nhc was given a solitary half-crown with which to maintain herself. After reaching Wellington, thinking that her friends were in the Wairarapa, she sot out on toot for this part, reaching Masterton last night in a starving cond'tion, having sold her boots on the way, to buy food. The relatives she has been unable to find. The action of the Charitable Aid Institution in Timaru in thus sending abroad a helpless woman was strongly commented on.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1060, 23 June 1892, Page 20
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143A PITIABLE CASE. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1060, 23 June 1892, Page 20
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