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The Crown Health
Financing Agency is selling the site, near Marton in the Rangitikei district,
including the buildings and the lake, on behalf of the of DHB. It has a rateable value
of nearly $1.4 million. The real estate agent handling the sale says there
has been a lot of interest in the 56 hectare site. The former psychiatric
hospital has a checkered history, after allegations by former patients that
they were abused by a psychiatrist in the 1970s. The government has paid
$6.5 million damages to people who were sexually abused and punished with
electric shock treatment and painful injections in the unit in the former
Lake Alice Adolescent Unit in the 1970s. |
