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Otago Witness, Issue 3542, 31 January 1922, Page 19

THE ACED POOR PROVISION OF HOMES NECESSARY. CHRISTCHURCH. January 26. “The State should provide a home for those people whose only crime •is that they have no friends,” stated Mr Wyvern Wilson. S.M., in the court to-day when a wizened, well-dressed old woman was brought up on remand, charged with beingan incorrigible rogue, as she had no visiblo lawful means of support. “This brings up a matter,” said Mr Wilson, “that I and other magistrates have been stressing for years. The State should provide a home to which a magistrate may commit these persons —a home where some restraint may be exercised. At the present time all a magistrate can do is to convict and discharge these persons on condition that they go to a home. They are not obliged to stay in that home. They become tired, leave the home, drift to the streets, and are charged with another crime. The only fault with these people is that they have no friends, money, or home. The provision of an adequate home is everybody's business, and consequently is nobody’s business, and so things drift on. There is a great need in the dominion for a home for the aged poor. Homes could be provided by regulation, gazetting soma of the homes under the control of charitabla aid boards as such homes for these old people.

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