TELEGRAMS.
(Pre Ukitid Phess Association.) TAUMARUNUI, November 13. A meeting of owners of Taumarunui Township declined to sell the freehold to the Government for £63,000. WELLINGTON, November 13. Tom Strange, a bankrupt baker, had to undergo a severe examination at a meeting of his creditors. The debtor stated that when ho was fined in the court for selling light-weight bread he enlisted in the infantry, and was informed that he would be transferred to the baking department at Trontham. Th.e fact that he had a wife and six children was known to the military authorities, because it was on his papers. A creditor stated that if the debtor had kept 6obcr he could have earned £315s to £4 a week ns a baker in Auckland. It would be a disgrace to let the man go and leave a young wife to battle for six children. The assignee suggested that tho wife might be better off if the debtor went than if he remained behind and drank. The debtor having signed a document allotting the whole of his pay except a shilling a day to his wife and family, the meeting decided to take no steps to stop him from enlisting.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16541, 15 November 1915, Page 6
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200TELEGRAMS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16541, 15 November 1915, Page 6
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