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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 237, 16 November 1877, Page 3

Ais extraordinary disclosure was made at a recent wccklj r meeting of tlic Waterford Board of Guardians. Mr. Kyan, master, reported that on a certain day a London relieving officer arrived at the workhouse in charge of a woman named Devlin. It appeared from the master's statement that the woman Devlin was born in Waterford, and when three years of age she proceeded with her parents to London ; she got married there, and uninterruptedly lived there for fifty years, when she became destitute. On applying for Poor Law relief she was kept for fourteen days, and in a sickly state scut over to Waterford, where she was born. Tlic guardians expressed themselves strongly ou the law that would sanction .such a thing, and adopted a resolution calling on the cit^y members to bring the matter before the House of Commons, and to solicit the support of the Irish party iii tlic matter.