§ 82. Mr. SITCHasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the case of J. T. Fairley, a married man with five children, who has been evicted from his home in Pelaw Grange Terrace, Chester-le-Street, and, being unable to obtain other accommodation, is compelled to sleep in a vestry whilst his family have been dispensed; whether he is aware that a son came home from the Army to find there was no home; and whether he will make representations to the owners of the house from which Fairley was evicted, namely, the Harraton Colliery Company, with a view to this man being found accommodation?
§ Dr. ADDISONI have received a letter from Mr. Fairley calling attention to his case. I regret that under the present law I have no power to intervene in such cases as these. I am doing whatever I can in all the cases that are reported to me to prevent people being turned out of their houses where there is no alternative accommodation.