STRANDED FAMILY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22742, 30 November 1935, Page 22

STRANDED FAMILY

DUBLIN LORD MAYOR’S ACTION (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, November 2. t The Dublin Board of Assistance a few days ago discussed the case of a New Zealand woman and her family who were thrown on the rates for subsistence. The Lord Mayor had got promises among his friends to help him to raise £SO to assist in sending her back to the Dominion. It appeared that the woman in question had returned to Ireland to visit her people, bringing her five children. Meantime, the woman’s father had died, and she eventually found herself without means while her husband in New Zealand became unemployed. It was stated by Mr Healy, relief supervisor, that the woman and her family had been on relief since August last. Mrs Fitzsimmons, one of the board, proposed that the board supplement the Lord Mayor’s offer by another £SO, and that some charitable association provided the balance of approximately £4O to enable the woman and her family to rejoin her husband. Mrs Fitzsimmons pointed out that she had not approached the Lord Mayor on the matter, but he had made the offer on his own initiative as was his custom when considering the poor. Other members of the board objected to the ratepayers’ money being used in this way, and the motion was eventually turned down by five votes to four.