Good morning listers, I have recently discovered that my great grand-aunt<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onmymothersside/huntley/huntleypaulhillfrances.shtml>was committed to Kingseat Hospital in 1945, and I am keen to find out why and for how long. She was committed at age 45 and I know that she passed away in a rest home in Auckland 43 years later in 1988, aged 88. Has anyone had any experience (good, bad or otherwise) obtaining records of past inmates? I'm assuming that records will not be easily available, but am wondering whether they will be downright impossible. Many thanks. p.s. the charmingly named Mental Defectives Act 1911, under which she was committed, makes for interesting reading. It lists six 'classes' of mentally defective persons: 1. Persons of unsound mind 2. Persons mentally infirm 3. Idiots 4. Imbeciles 5. Feeble-minded 6. Epileptics Regards Tracy Pilet