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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 475, 28 May 1890, Page 6

The action of the Government in turning out the half-dozen imbeciles from the Asylum was the subject for a leading article in the Wellington “Post” on Saturday. The writer says : —“ Mr Kidd has done all in his power to bring -Ministers to a sense of their duty in connection with the affair, bub Mr Hislop is not amendble to reason or argument, and the Auckland Charitable Aid Board is, we believe, now threatened with a stoppage of its subsidies, in order to enable the Government to deduct the cost of providing for these and similar cases. Fortunately, Parliament will meet before much injustice can be done in this direction, and we are mistaken if the action of the department in regard to this case is nob then unequivocally condemned, and a change of policy compelled. On no principle of right or justice can the maintenance of imbecile lunatics be made a local charge on the chief centres of population.” “Please, mister, give me a bundle of hay.” “Yes, my boy. Sixpenny or shilling bundle ?” “Shillin’.” “Is it for your father?” “No, it ’taint—that’s for the hoss. My father don’t eat hay 1”