WALKED FROM KAIKOURA TO SEE HIS CHILDREN, WHO HAD TAKEN SICK.
In drawing attention to the hardships cavised as a result of married men having to go into the country to obtain relief employment provided by the Public Works Department, Mr F. C. Ellis, one of the Trades Hall repres£ntati>es on the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee, stated at today's meeting of the committee that a particular case had just come under his notice. The man went to a job near Kaikoura, and while he was away two of his children became seriously iff. His wife borrowed some money with which to send him a telegram, and the. man, having no money for his fare to Christchurch, walked all the way back. “ He is here in the city to-dav,” Mr Ellis added. Kaikoura is 125 miles from Christchurch.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17905, 22 July 1926, Page 4
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