"HALF-WAY HOUSE" NEEDED.
OLD MAN GAOLED AGAIN. ■ WILL NOT.': STAY IN HOME. "If'ever ; there was a case for the half-way house that is so badly needed, it is this old fellow," said Staff Captain Holmes, Samaritan officer for the Salvation Army, about Kenneth McLeod, at the Police Court this morning., ; McLeod, aged 76, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness and of being an ' idle and disorderly< pereon with insufficient means of support. Staff. "Captain Holmes said McLeod had previously been in an old men's home,' out would not stay there. He came out of gaol on Saturday morning. "I drove him straight from the. gaol to our home, but he would not stay/. addecV: Mr. Holmes. "He's a half-way iou.se .case.;' "He is 7(3,and he has 43 .previous victions," said the 'magistrate, Mr.,F..K. Hunt; "The only thing "to do is to send him to gaol for three months. He's been there "before; He: will; be .looked after there;'! v \ ■:':, = > ' ; ■-•-■• : "" :
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 8
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