WOMAN “CAMPS” IN STREET. INDEPENDENT, BUT NO HOUSE ' OR HOME. BOXES FOR BED. Surrounded by lier boxes, n woman of independent means lias been camping out on the stro'ct pavement at Tottenham. "When she was sentenced to a day’s imprisonment for obstruction, her name was given as Alice -Williams, a music teacher, of no fixed abode. The police said she arrived at Tottenham some weeks ago. First her boxes were placed in the station cloak room while she went in search of accommodation. ,She. failed to find lodgings, however, and later her boxes were warehoused for a time bv a grocer. Afterwards, being still without a room, she had spent nvdits in the street surrounded by her boxes. - . The woman said the rent demanded for rooms was extortionate. and she refused to pay it. She said there was no obstruction, as she mwk / her boxes close against the fence and sat on a corner of one of them.
: North British Garden Hose serves von faithfully lone after • ordinary V>oso has split into leakv uselessness. Insist on “North British'’ and sen that you get it.—l 3.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10311, 21 January 1927, Page 3
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185Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10311, 21 January 1927, Page 3
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