LIKE FAIRY TALE

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20426, 17 February 1938, Page 12

LIKE FAIRY TALE

VENDOR’S WINDFALL ALL DEBTS PAID Urine in modest!: ip| In Kent Street. P is a mid'i’o ged mai reads more like a I y i t 1 fact. He is, Mr Leoi recently Jun.pe.l iiit.. 11sendirs a r.nhlegr.itti »•. ’ H- T. • Davis. .Mtorney-ti-aer.il sk.it.-I-wan, Canada, to tli *■ t it **t lltat h* i inherited a small fortunr. and v. to pay a number of ti-bts wliieh t was unable to settle when h- fail* ago. The fortune is not a bn-re one. , fee thousand pounds, hot the Cr-t th‘n. Mr Hitt did on reeet\ n C ti e n . . that he had com' into some mope was to spend £a on a eablecram t Mr Davis, whom h* fc-ovs person-, Although now com'ortahly oT • the rest of his life. Mr Hitt lives a Portsmouth dockya-dman and : family in Kent Street, „nd t.s chi-

concern at the mompnt is that all his debts which he had to leave behind him in Canada shall be paid in full. He is not even certain of the amount owing, but inquiries are beine made on his behalf. A Varied Life A sen of the late Mr and Mrs \Y. 0. Hitt. *.f Plymouth, Mr Hitt has led a m«»t varied lif{». list n he joined the \rmy lit? ted years. the? ■j join* .I tin P..M i .;telephones as a II - ; fr..in l IV* r 1 1 r-c-vious r *. i t pw-enence I ar-

“I stayed there for some time, andj my next job was that of a managerl for a grocery firm, which enabled me ti> learn the trade. After a while I launched out on my own as a grocer . T ; - - l tOV 20 miles north of Prince Albert, at a point where the Canadian Pacific line branches off for Hudson Bay. “For four years I supplied Groceries to tlm gancs i■ ng;ig •'ll on laying the! tr.o'k for the branch. Then the drought tln.us-.n.ls Jeff the area did my ■ . Left “High and Dry” ‘ t • l ued so s-.'drb 111;, fh ,* •* ’eft n •• 1 1 - ii and dry. and I c- old not creditors so much in the dollar, and i •w that 1 !i tve this money fn-m in> father 1 f.-d I should like'to j...v ~n* .all my debts. "Aih'r my l.usiness failed I met Mr! I'.ivis and helped him with his parlia- : nmnfary work. 1 was his agent, and •'■•'ten attended flie Parliament at He-; Giii to hear Mr Davis speak. I lived, in Hecina for about a year, and dur-j inc that p-ne i lent a hand to the Cana-! dhn -ahatm-n Army in their social = 'I 'air: o home in P-'?. and since •!'*n 1 have tackled many iobs in order to get a lu.ng. I have been working

j in London as person secretary to the l l Disabled Ex-Servicemen's Industries,! L and last spring I was in charge of the disabled men's industry section of the Bi it si r.egi >n st til it the Id( il II »mes . Exhibit'■■n. j “This actually led to my coming to I was the Smithson Pu ; assoc:. l l ioj, which led to mv t .kin- a holiday at Souths.-... and Imre 1 have been ever Since." In the 1 • o' ime M - Hit I has obnd mall - • n v prominentl\ .vuiii.'.-t-d with the Naval 1 •!!••-•• ~l tile time it was built. When I ■ !■•! :••■! lie i,,. residence ill I i»I >I, ...Util. ; Mr- Im-mnrd Milt, his a br. !lmr in !*. •uti *m i .m! • sister living ;n y 1 'pvnnshir-o. Roth also share in their 1 v- II:!. vv-.s n-t propovofl to ,iivui =.' ,'■■=.• T •'!'-* Of II • ■. . ! : I-,-, bill hP . ■ : -■■■■! ..... n spitp • ' ■ vpner. ’ and “ .* !••••■*-• md - f : . h;s debts :a Canada.