BAD CONDITIONS
UNFORTUNATE CHILDREN MOTHER ADDICTED TO DRINK Continuous drinking by their mother as responsible for the appearance of wo children in the Wanganui Child Welfare Court yesterday on a complaint hat they were living in an environlent detrimental to their physical ealth. The facts exposed by the evidence zero that the children had been in the are of a neighbour who had looked f " them very well. Recently the i> er had returned from a trip to Palmerston North and she had squan.ered all her widow’s pension. She ad not even paid for the keep of her hildren. In the house there was praeically no furniture and a lodger slept n a few coats on the. floor. A child elfare officer had taken the children way. The two children were then commited to the care of the Wanganui Reeiving Officer.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19785, 8 March 1927, Page 8
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141BAD CONDITIONS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19785, 8 March 1927, Page 8
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