CASE OF HARDSHIP
DIFFICULTIES OF SOLDIERS' MOTHER. BAILIFFS IN POSSESSION. (From Otjk Own Correspondent ) WELLINGTON, August 31. An urgent appeal for help from Auckland came before the House of Representatives this afternoon. It was from a woman with four sons at the front who had the bailiffs in her house. She sent the following telegram to Mr Glover: —"Can you get assistance from the Defence Department re my claim: bailiffs in possession; claim for rent £8 9s; reply urgent; I have four sons at the front." Mr Glover said the lady's husband was m very- indifferent health. He asked _ the Government what it was going to do in a case like that? Something should be done to come to the rescue, because he had known the same individual take away the bed from under the people and the piano from the house. This woman had given four sons to the war, and the bailiffs were put in possession for £B. Siirely the Defence Department would come to the rescue of this woman. Mr Sykes said it was a disgrace to the city.
A Member: "Who is the landlord? Put his name on record." Mr Glover: ''No." Mr Payne: "Does it commence with "H"? Mr Glover: "Yes." It is Mr Hannan. This is a case that claims consideration, and probably the Defence Minister will direct me how to send a reply." Mr Sykes: "Submit it to the Patriotic Society.'' . Mr Glover said the Patriotic Society had done very, well, but that was only a precautionary expedient. Ho would go to the Defence Minister to see if the Defence Department could not do something until the allotment came in next month. Mr Glover subsequently interviewed the Minister of Defence, who gave sympathetic consideration to the appeal, and provided Mr Glover with application forms, which would ensure that the matter would be attended to by the Defence Department. Mr Glover'has sent a telegram to the mother of the four soldiers advising her to apply to the Patr'otic Society at once, and assuring her that the society would give her temporary relief.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3312, 5 September 1917, Page 28
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348CASE OF HARDSHIP Otago Witness, Issue 3312, 5 September 1917, Page 28
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