SOLDIERS’ HOME TO BE CLOSED
BUILT FOB MEN DISABLED IN 1914-18 (P.A.) AUCKLAND. Sept. 26. After beina in continuous operation since 1920, ;he Evelyn Firth Home at Parnell is to be closed, according to a decision of the Great War Funds Administrative Committee. The chairman (Sir James Gunson) reported that at present there were only three patients at the home who could be regarded as being permanently disabled through war service. Fifteen of the patients were more or less invalids, but by no means the type of case for which the home was originally provided. The present weekly expenditure was £62. of which the Government found £45.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23445, 27 September 1941, Page 5
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