THE OLD MAN'S HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 137, 1 July 1901, Page 2

THE OLD MAN'S HOME.

TO THE EDITOR. Si«, —May I ask through your 'valuable piper if tho men located at i the Hospital, Honui, are under tlio j supervision of tha Hospital and Olmri'-1 in bio Aid Boar.l My reason for asi- - in* is owing t> on-9 of the inantes residing the; u b-ing foiled in a helpkss! s'ato hst night, and would possibly have b"en left t) perish in the co'd had lie not been assisted to his domicile by a man living a' East: Eod rind I two youths, who pr icti-ally had ro : o:\ny him there by main force. Soma jS' Ven months bioce, the jnrv at » ! coroner's inquest strongly advised an ! enquiry into the administration of the I old m- n't! refug'o, hut th-ro the matter ! ended. Wl y ? did the Cor.-.nrr in !i----1 report advife t.he authorities at Wol- | litjgtan thfre wis nc occasion fur sn o»i quiry. -If s , it nppsais stninge pro- - cedura on the part of the Coroner nßeikis concun en'; sctiori wi;h the jurymen at the inquest. " Laws grind >h« poor, nn;i liuh men rule tli i Juw," in»y be ■ truly iaid to apply to this aod other cases in this commuoity. S veral notieos have appeared in the Proas returning thanks for donations of • clothing i r t,re old tnon, but up to a (recent date these hid not be-n distiibuted. This is the winter season and some of the innr-ites are not too . woll did, as is evido.it to the most i casual obset Vri 1 . I ncderatand books and clothing given aro to be distribiv ed ' when the inmates »ro tr-nsferred to, tIK-ir new quat tors. The man jVicKer ' who wriita o mplaining of the treatment 1 moted out to hira while iu the Refuge, ' and who aleo gave evidence at the , Crouley inquest, broke his leg some I four months af:o, and app»ais to be 1 sinking fast. Ousjht not th's tnanV ! sworn evidence to he tiken so that in! I the evtnt of his decease prior to an erquiry being held, his charges against ■ the management would be available.— ' I am, &j., | "VEUB SAP 1 " New Plymouth, June 27th, 1901,