A BACK BLOCKS TRAGEDY.
Every session some country member gives to the House some startling reminder that there is a section of the community which lives a life not only "far from the madding crowd," but far from life and movement and the company of human .and adds a few words which, byjttUr very directness, compel atteOTion. This session's contribution to that class of experience was made on Thursday night by Mr Jennings, whose knowledge of the backblocks is wide and varied, says the Post. He knew of a man in Taranaki so isolated from the world, on account of the lack of roads, that not one of his children had been ushered into the world with the usual nursing assistance. Then came the point: "I met that man one day," said Mr Jennings, "and he was crying like a child. When I asked him what was the matter he said that he had just taken his wife to the Auckland Asylum—her brain had given way under the strain of isolation." The House shuddered and listened attentively while Mr Jennings went on to urge that members would give the Government a full vote for roading purposes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8480, 6 July 1907, Page 7
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196A BACK BLOCKS TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8480, 6 July 1907, Page 7
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