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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1920, Page 10

Wangnnui builders and timber merchants are faeed with what approximates to a building boom. A well-known contractor informed a representative of the Wanganul Chronicle that there must be more than a hundred houses in eourse of construction in Wangauui and district at the present time. This information was endorsed by a timber merchant, who added that if the supply of labor was equal to the demand, the number of buildings in hand would (be nearer two hundred than one hundred. Referring to the death by drowning of the Australian trooper suffering from shell-shock whose body was found in the Auckland harbor, the Star says the man should not have 'been allowed at large. The paper proceeds: "We are not making any reflections on the police, who have to follow rules in these matters, when we say that it ought to have been impossible for such a tragedy to happen. Here was a man obviously not himself allowed to wander about a city in the early hours of the morning with'uowhere to go to. Surely there should be provision for such cases, which are deemed to be on the near side of the border-line of insanity. Either there should be an institution for them, or the police should be instructed to detain victims, pending further inquiries about their condition and the necessary relief. Shell-shock cases are not rare, and the fate of this. man may be the fate of others if something is not done,"