NO FOOD OR SHELTER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1938, Page 13

NO FOOD OR SHELTER

"This man has been sleeping out near the wharves for some nights, he had Is 4d in his possession, and it was apparent to the constable who found him at an early hour this morning that he had had no food for some time," said Sub-Inspector J. A. Dempsey in the Magistrate's Court today concerning William Browne, aged 70, a labourer, who was remanded until January 6 on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person without sufficient lawful means of support.

The sub-inspector explained that the Salvation Army would almost certainly do something for the man, who had lost his memory and believed that he was about 12 or 14 years old.

accommodate nearly 1000 parties. Five hundred parties, numbering over 2000 persons, were in camp on Thursday night. v

Owing to the growth of shelter belts luring the past few years, none of the camps was affected by the wind and rain prevalent before Christmas.

Full use is being made of the excel: lent facilities provided, including the swimming baths, tennis court, cooking block, and toilet rooms On Christmas Day ' several families prepared very appetising Christmas dinners With the aid of the ovens in the cooking block.

The majority of those in residence intended to remain from five to ten days. The custodians report the behaviour of the campers as exemplary.

Other camp sites in the vicinity of Auckland city are also proving popular and several, small in area, are taxed to capacity.

A motorist travelling from Hamilton to Auckland between 9 a.m and noon one day counted 403 cars with camp equipment on board proceeding south. Of these, 27 had caravans and 20 had trailers attached.