CORRESPONDENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1923, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

Old) PEOPLE'S HOME. (To 1 lit* Editor). No'. A i 1,,- : ni, "i ing of V,',■ -:! on! j Hu-ni'a! it..it'd, ih" Kuiitiira lb.rough j Council wrote asking for a ccniference j hot urn l li., 1 bn ly ami ('• rev'incut ii Hospital Board, and they ha c •. accord- j ing to your report, ietiorod the nr,.,- I maimer- on their part. Mr I):;*, idsou -aid a , ild'eihad | like to know if Inal was a -«cr j (civic e it- I have fellowcd tlic-e mat- | ter- fur a iiiiml: r oi yea i- aml never j heard of it before. Hi Hokitika you have these sane gentlemen talking eeiitralisntieti oi a I niter factor,' and vet w hen il comes to them for' an Did People's Home, they turn the matter down. Thai e Is only room for one I lutin' cm ! the West ( : ; i. and if one i- built m j Hokitika end one in t Ireymoul h. l-ih i ef til,-m will be white elephants and I 11,. ratepa ccr- will l,e (.died down to i jiav for tb’lii. The V. e-i land Hospital Board ha. the Home in Ktiunra. wlii' h is a t redit to Westland for the maim, r in which the aged arc Inokccl after and cared h r. The Chairman of that Board at last me ting said that it would take '.'Hid to

(_'!Vill to i.qieii it as it wa- ten yearago. I should like to know from whom he gets hi- csiimatc. for he i- absolutely wrong, and if he paid a visit to the Home imw and again, lie w ould-have known belter wlnu he was talking about. All that is required for tlie Kuniara j Home i- a coat of paint, which the j building ha- not had for seven or eight years. The cost of painting and repairs would he about £2!' h the figures I have taken from a tradesman, who would do tho job at the price. T fail to pec how members of the Board, wlm have never put a 100. inside it. can turn the Kuniara Home down. I am pleased to see the IJoss Borough objecting to borrowing money to waste in'Hokitika when the Kuniara Home is already established. The chairman and members talk oi economy—-on whose figure- are they basing their argument. Arc the patients kept cheaper in Hokitika titan th y are in Kuniara under the management of the present time, or are they working on the figures oi the former maters of the Home. I doubt if tin* management in Hokitika is any better than in Kuniara. Home. I should like in see a statement of -ame published, and then the pubue ; would know what was what, and : whether Hokitika is justified in erect- j ing a Home av the cost of £2.oD> and letting one valued at £-IaVM go to rum. Thanking you for your valued space. [ am etc.. ECONOMIST. Kurnrua. March -Mth.