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FRIENDLESS AGED FOLK. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUCKLAND. .Time 4. Legislation to provide for a, halfway house for unfortunate old men and women probably in the Haiuaki Gulf, was promised by Sir Joseph Ward in his Town Hall speech tonight . He said that many were unable in their last years to care for themselves under the strain of modern life, and they were sent to gaol by Magistrates on the charge of vagrancy—-which was an indefinite term at the best—because they were homeless and friendless. It would he better, lie said. if they could be cared for in pleasant surroundings in some special institution, say in the Hauraki Gulf. Similar provision could also be applicable to certain classes of mental hospital inmates who did not require the special care which such hospitals provided. He proposed to ask Parliament to sanction legislation giving the Magistrates dis-retionary power to commit persons to such an institution as lie had described.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1929, Page 2
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161A HOME PROMISED Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1929, Page 2
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