PROPOSED REFORMATORY FOR GIRLS.
PROPOSAL TO CHARITABLE AID
BOARD.
Yesterday afternoon a deputation consisting of the Revs. Messrs Monro and Hill and Mr Brakenrig waited on the Hospital and Charitable Aid , Board to lay before the Board certain proposals regarding a reformatory for young girle. The Rev. Mr Monro said that at a large and influential meeting in the V.M.C.A. it was recommended that a Committee should be appointed to consider the question of establishing a reformatory for young girls beginning a lifeof vice. There wassuch a reformatory for boys, but none for girls, and it seemed the only thing was to commit these girls to Mount Eden. Aftev a good deal of inquiry the Committee had decided to request tbo Charitable Aid Board to assist them in the establishment of a reformatory. They considered that they could not depend entirely on private benevolence.
The Rev. Mr Hill said that about £300 would be required. If convenient to the Board this afternoon they should like to know if the Board would support them. Hβ believed that in Canterbury the Board there did assist. If this Board decided to oppose them there would be little use in starting. Mr Lennox said he should like to see the home started first and ia some sort of order before assistance was given or asked for. 2»lr Mays said he did not know whether the establishment of euch an institute was within the powers of the Board. Mr Monro said he understood there waa a sum of money in the bank for this purpose if the reformatory could be started, but they were afraid to start it by private benevolence alone. They understood that the Government would only assist through the Charitable Aid Board.
Mr Mays thought the best plan would be to apply to tha Government. To put the matter into some form, he would move, " That the deputation be requested to put the propositi in writing, and. when received, be considered by the House Committee for report, with a view to communicating with the Government."
Mr Bollard the motion, which was carried unanimously.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 299, 17 December 1889, Page 5
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