BEGGAR BOY TO M.P.
“When I was a boy, I had to beg my bread from door to door.” Many an M.P. has started life in Poverty Street, but I doubt if this confession of Mr. A. E. Waterhouse, the member for Kettering (Eng.), can be equalled. His struggles were remarkable. He hasn’t the slightest recollection of his father and mother and was brought up by an old widowed woman. His first job was an errandboy. Then he worked for a grocer, became a railway messenger, and then a shunter. Before the war his wages never exceeded 245. per week, “and I worked hard enough for it, too.” he says.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17894, 14 June 1920, Page 5
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