DISTRESS AT HOME.
Our Wairere correspondent sends the following, taken from a late Home paper, which is evidence of the great distress there prevailing. Two men named James Conner and James McDonnell smashed a window at Burton-on-Trent and then asked a constable to lock them up.
" I have been ' clamming' myself to death and will' clam 'no longer," said one to the Magistrate on Monday. "My friend and I have been tramping the country in vain in search of work, and we were starving. We are healthy and strong, and there are thousands the same, but the country is overrun with foreigners, who work for any wage and take bread out of our mouths."
The two men were committed to the sessions for trial.
In view of the above, and also the wide spread of starvation, it seems increditable that thousands of pounds are now being collected for transmission to India and China, when it is wanted at Home.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8278, 20 October 1905, Page 3
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