INEBRIATES' HOMES.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 133, 6 June 1904, Page 5

INEBRIATES' HOMES.

[lIT TKLKanAVH — *HKSB ASSOCIATION.} AUCKLAND, This Day. Jlr. Kettle, S.M., in sending a woman nnuied Annie Dunn to gaol for two weeks, said .she wax a. fit subject for the Inebriates' Home. He read a letter from the Medical Superintendent of the Waitati Home to explain his action. The letter stated : "1 have received into the Orokotiui Home for InobriuLoH Barbara Craigio, committed by you. Neither our regulations nor accommodation have permitted the classification of the inmates in the female department. We have &cvon women — one the wifo of a banker, another the wifo of a sheopfarmer, another the wife of a wealthy boU'lkcepvr, and tho other four ara al«o respectable femaleH. It is difficult to ask those women' to a&sowitli such women as Barbara Cruigic, who lias been eighteen times in the hands of tht> police, and fined twice for keeping a brothel, and lms latterly been cohabiting with a man not her husband. From my experience this class of woman cannot benelit by tho Inebriates* Home, , II«r presence is calculated to demoralise : others and lower tho torw of the iustitution." Mr. Kettle added, apropos of the luttcr remark, that one would havo thought the other iam.itew would have tried to Mine Barbara CraJgie. He did not know whether he would' not siciul Auui" Dunn to the Inebriates' Home, despite tho letter quoted.