COSTLEY HOME.
The enquiry into the charges made by Mr Wood against the management of the Costley Home occupied a full day and was then adjourned. The evidence does not disclose any very great cause for complaint. At the close of the enquiry the Chairman of the Board said £IO,OOO had been spent on this Home, and there was practically no revenue from the endowment. This was a poor house supported by the rates, and there was nothing left to supply these people with luxuries. All the inmates were paupers, and they weie treated impartially. Three hummed paupers were receiving rations outside, andhe thought the Board should take some of those and put them in the Home in place of the grumblers. He had been taught to dread a spoiled child and a spoiled pauper, and the latter was the worst. His earnest desire was that the inmates should be happy, but the main feature of the difficulty was the grumbling of those who thought in the name of Costley they were entitled to special privileges. There was only £2400 of the Costley bequest left, and he hoped that would be used to meet requirements of old couples so that they should not be separated in their old age.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 165, 30 September 1892, Page 5
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209COSTLEY HOME. Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 165, 30 September 1892, Page 5
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