Some idea of the struggle for existence was given by a debtor at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on Thursday morning. He said he learned from £2 to £2 6s per -week, was married, and had fourteen children, ten of whom he had still to maintain. Four daughters were married, and had as much as they could do to keep themselves. His eldest eon had been nine months in the hospital,! and was now lying at homo ill. The ages of the other children he had to keep ranged from eighteen months to ten years. With such a hig family he had to have a hig house, which cost 17s per week. His wife sometimes managed to earn a little money by going out washing. “I cannot ask for any order under such circumstances,” remarked the solicitor for the judgment creditor.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 8986, 8 March 1915, Page 7
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