COSTLEY HOME SCANDAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7873, 7 January 1904, Page 3

COSTLEY HOME SCANDAL.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 5.

Tire report of the Royal Commission :m Costley Home and Ihe Premier's letter thereon were tonsideied by the Charitable Aid Board to-night. The report was condemned as exaggerated, and the fmdnig strongly disagreed vith. Tho Chairman said he was satisfied 90 per cent; of the inmates had not been better feds for 20 years. The staff was incompetent. Ad to the presence in the Home of persons fitted for no ether place bu. 1 ; an asylum, the report of the commission might do some good. Mr Bollard, M.H.R., moved that consideration of the report be de f erred, and that .the Gjurnment be asked for a copy of the evidence on which the report was based, Th^was carried. It was stated in the couvge of further discussion .that- if the locau todies were prepared to spend £8000 nLtters could easily bs improved. It wasjdecided that the resignation of the manager and head nurse be not accepted J afad that they be requested to withdraw! ihe same. T\u Chairman, in supporting this, said the Board should show a st. If backbone. They would 'give the Commission and those above it "the biggest Jpoke in the eye" possible, and show that the Board had an opinion of its own.