JOY IN A COTTAGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 152, 30 June 1932, Page 10

JOY IN A COTTAGE

QUEEN SAVES WIDOW'S HOME. i:\b I'uix <>i(rn:ii f-osri’oNED. There was much hafpinebs in tho tage home of Mrs. Fillon Lewis, 91, a widow, of GoJintf House, toil, near Twitken tain, last when it became kn<wn that, acting the suggestion o the Queen, Middlesex County Council had (■idm! not to earn out an intention evk’t her. In her early L£p Mrs. Dillon Lev. was a woman of wealth. Her Mr. J Dil'on L-wis. a well-known citor. unsuccetsfully contested Middl'sborouti| and Jarrow scats tin' House Commons, and friend of Mr Llovd George (who taken a personal interest in her Mr. .I«»hn Burns and the late Mr. Petition* fr<mi various districts Thame- Valley were sent to Twickenham Corporation some time when it b'came known that the poration was going to evict Lewis, hnl on April 25 the Corporat decided to postpone action in view the ( nment’s refusal to toward the cost of the road that w mil id follow the demolition of | house in which Mrs. Dillon Lew The Middlesex Conntv Council decided t(. do the work and with the eviction, but on May 14. lowing the Queen’s intervention. became known that they were I'lendinir postponement for six Mrs. Lewis’ son. Mr. Dillon with tears in his eyes, expressed thanks am gratitude when told of p..-it ion. ’We have received R from the Queen’s private secretarial icouehrd in the kindest terms,” !-:.id. ‘‘ami it has given us all i hapiness and joy. From the jiir-f the Queen has been most |:hetic and there is no doubt that inten ent G>n has gone far to about this happv result.”