SOLWAY HOME.

Wairarapa Age, 20 April 1933, Page 4

SOLWAY HOME.

HASTY ACTION OPPOSED. (To the Editor.) Sir, —I have been informed that the Hospital Board intends to close the Solway Home and is taking the final vote on the matter to-morrow. Might I suggest to the board that this matter stand over to be dealt with after the elections? While economy is advisable, the inmates of the home have in many cases sold or given away their few possessions before they entered, and will now, at the beginning of winter, be faced with expulsion, to cater for themselves, on a reduced pension, or to enter an institution 36 miles away from their friends, which cannot be looked on as a home, as the old men are crowded together, twelve in a room. Before this is done, the public are entitled to know what the Solway Home cost last year, putting on the credit side vegetables provided for the hospital, money from the State pensions, and money left or given to the board -by dead or alive. There is a point where economy becomes parsimony and we owe much in New Zealand to these old pioneers.—I am etc., ANN® FLETCHER. Masterton, April 19.