FORCED OUT OF TENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 7

FORCED OUT OF TENTS

FAMILY OF EIGHT

CITY STORM DELUGE

NO HOUSES AVAILABLE

(Pur Pruss Association.) AUCKLAND, this day

Forced bv lack of housing accommodation to live in two makeshift tents, which are pitched in a gorsefilled gully along waterfront road, the father and mother of eight children were last night driven from their home at the height of the deluge when, the stormwater flowed down the walls of the gully and lapped under the bedding. The family-made a hurried departure and were given shelter for tht* night in the meeting-house at the Orakei Maori settlement. "We have been here in the gorso since Christmas because we cannot rent a house," declared the mother. "We can pay £1 10s a week, and since we came here we have advertised regularly without success. It ds enough to make anyone despair. Even a member of Parliament, who tried, could not get us a house." There is one ray of hope. A workmate of the father to-day reported that he might be able to place a house at their disposal in a week's time. "We can't let it get us down," said the wife. "We have to keep cheerful for the children's sake."