A DISGRACE
LIVING CONDITIONS AT RATANA. CORONER'S CRITICISM (By Telegraph—Press Association.) MARTON,. August 27. “Conditions under which the natives are living at Ratana pa are nothing short of tragic, and the housing and sanitary conditions are a disgrace to those in charge of native affairs. _ said, the district coroner, Mr A. J. Sicely, J.P., who investigated the death of an infant at the pa. He found that a family of nine were living in a one-roomed draughty shack about 20 feet by 12 feet—a mother father, and seven children of mixed sexes.’ The sleeping accommodation comprised two double-beds and a couch, on which the sick mother was lying-in after the birth of a still-boin child. Meat and other eatables lay open on shelves, and meals for the family were spread on the floor. There was no sanitary system in the village, he said. Stagnant, green, slimy water was to be seen in cesspools along the sides of the lanes between the houses.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1940, Page 2
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