TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 251, 1 November 1901, Page 2

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

This morning the Commissioner (Mr H. W. Brabant, S.M.) visited the "Institute. He was accompanied by Mr Mahony (representing the Trustees) and Mr Wilding* (representing the Education Department), and was shown over the Institute by Mr R. Leslie Hunt (secretary) and Mrs Tigho (matron). The school was first visited, where the Commissioner was shown the instruction imparted there by Miss Law, the teacher. The workshops were then visited, and the Commissioner inspected the various industries carried on there, mat and net making and strawberry box manufacture. The dormitories, etc., were then visited, the whole of the Institute being thoroughly inspected. Cleanliness and tidiness were apparent every-

where

After the inspection evidence was taken by the Commissioner. Amelia Jane Tighe, matron of the Institute, considered the men had sufficient food, while the food bought was always of the best. She had found it very hard to please the men She considered the statements that she had treated some of the inmateS harshly were falsehoods. Witness then detailed what she knew of the occurrence on the night on which Clark alleged that Mr Tighe assaulted him. According to witness, who did not see the actual occurrence, Clark was violent, and «dintoJP«J language. She was positive Clark was under the influence of Uquo* W* ness was perfectly satined vn th the way she had been treated by tho Trustees, and considered that they had supplied the Institute with everything necessary. Mary Jones who had made complaints agains witness, had been dismissed for stalk ing a blind boy. (Witness alleged that Mary Jones was very friendly with Clark and that in making her comphunt she was actuated by malice. With re gard to the complaints that the cab bage leaves alone were given to the xnen, witness said she had told the servant to give the children the hearts of the cabbages, as the children had to be closely considered in the matter of vegetables. To Mr Clark: When the men asked for more food they were supplied with

Alice Law, teacher, said she had been teaching in the Institute for six years. She had under her instruction S Jrls, seven boys, and four adults. She considered the apparatus supplied to her for the education of those under her sufficient. She did not know of any apparatus used in other ms °titS that was not in this institute Witness was not present when Mr Pope visited the institution. To Mr Mahony: The trustees and Mr and Mrs Tighe were, she considered faithful in their attention to the ir duty. -She had never heard complaints from the inmates. (Proceeding.)