THE MAN WITH LARGE FAMILY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14051, 22 July 1916, Page 5

THE MAN WITH LARGE FAMILY

-, NOT TO'BE. AOOEPTEI> INj. FUTURE. (Prom Our.ParllameniarV'Reporter.) WELLTiTGTO^,' this day. V In reply to a, question from, the mem-' ber for Wallace, who protested against a man from , hia : district ,leayii%, with the next reixjiorqemeata, \vhenjhe,.had seven children, the eldest of whom was nine and-a-half- yetosXMi;. Allen siid ho., discouraged . ; the, '..'enlist&iefrt i, oi., niarried men with large families, as \fa»,iaa possible, without going to oi definite '.prohibition. -/,\ , Ho^p/^n^e'd out that if a man left, without* making provision for children, the department had power to allot .'money, done in several cases. He did not think, however,, , it ,, coul4 <. stop a , nu^n just, £ day before he«> was going away/- but in future no niaii^ with a, ,, large family would be accepted; for service unless for some .special a-eason- ■- ■ 't. -• .