OLD MAN’S DELUSION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 13

OLD MAN’S DELUSION

“CABINET DECIDING TITLE TO RAUPO HUT” REFUSES TO MOVE According to Patrick Carr, 72 years of age, Cabinet is meeting to-day to decide if he is to continue having a whare on a dedicated road at Swanson. He said tliis to Mr. W. 11. McKean, S.M., in the Police Court this mornihg. when he was charged with encroaching on a road by erecting a, building. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that Carr had been living at Henderson. "The constable wants Carr to go to a home, but lie makes himself obnoxious in the neighbourhood.” Mr. McCarthy said. Constable Kushlon, of Henderson, said that Carr lived in a raupo whare in a dedicated road. He had had the I.ittle Sisters of the Poor to see him. but he would not go where he could, receive proper care. "Carr is obstinate and eccentric,” decided the constable. Mr. McCarthy: Carr once camped on the Hobsonville airdrome. He has' been cautioned so many time‘l that he' thinks we are crying "wolf” and will do 1 nothing. Carr, who took an alert interest in the proceedings, said ho had permission from the Public Works Hepartment to build the whare. The case was adjourned for two weeks for a report from the department.