MONTECILLO HOME

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 13 November 1923, Page 6

MONTECILLO HOME

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. . DUNEDtN, Thi6 Day; The Montecillti Red GfoSg Coiivales6«nt Ssm for Soldiers is still • fUUV 66----cupied, th*fe beihi? thirty iniiiat«S which is Hi nbftftat capacity: A question pyt W, a rejiprter led {o the informatimi that, irt the opifiioh of ohfe of the 6hfef medical eipeirts hi the Doiiiinioli, the Moritecillo Home will be Heeded for another geHeration. "At a coriserratire. estimate) I should say about tofty years/ was the arisiver of the gxpeft referred te, wheft oiie of the responsible managers asked if he ctiUld form any idea as to when, the hotne would come to the end of its UsSfttlfiess. Men are received, fffiitt n6t only Otago and South-, land, but from place's all over New Zealand. They cdfiie here for treatment by experts who are not available elsewhere, aiid ih the >pells between exahM- and operations they go into the home *o> the rest which is part of the treatment. lhe aye-rage tetta of resideiWe has rirter been figured oiii, but thefe are Inmates who haVe been at Moiiteceile wntinftmlsly for three t«<ifs :