"SWEET HOME."

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 9

"SWEET HOME."

•_. r~*i *~ i ii. _. \ XOTAJj yuttallu wiH QJtB BOX* j^AsrcEj v iQK- cffljiDKEar. - - .:A sad commentary on the .sort of chance' some children in Auckland get ■to .'cifcfeehs, an4-.,jitß gfet tome decent hapgineee oiit of'life,.'was supplied by a case that-came before E. C. Cutten, 8M. f at the Juvenile Court; 'this.: morning; when the-police iraide applicatiQn. _*c Jiave. .lour . btiglxt-faced; yaungeters- committed to the. care off , tfl^-St»te,--ar-Wii^childr%ii* , iiDt''iiin4ic proper controL • <■-,-• .-,... .-■■ ' Sergeant Bock stated ; that in -consequence of sometiing he had -beard bis -visited: ft. : two-roomed- chanty ; -in -6roas ; Street, Newton, on Friday morning last. The -house itself- he coneidered ec»rcely fit far. human habitation,, and. inside the place he found a -woman, very poorly attired, and four children,. of ages- rangingJ roni nine year& o£ *ge down, to: thre»i years. The eple larder of the house consisted of three or four old emits of ' bre*d ifchait'were lying on a box,'which did. duty.'for a. table,, and which Tepre-i sented the entire furniture of $he place. Four or five small. plates, saucers,. and -«upe-,=a jugi kettle, irying-paTE^nd^rtea-pot comprised the, rest of the household effects, with ithe exception ■of ■an old mattress and a rug, in the othe-rToom t which made up the total of the bedroom equipment. One 'trip- with -a : small wheel-barrow would Jtaveehifted-tfie lot. The woman told him that she, ami her husband were separated, aniitKa't tfie •husband, a labourer, give her front 10/ ■to 25/ a week to keep herself and thft children on. Hβ told her that cbriiplaint bad been, made, that. She.' hai neglected the children; and tlatnanless' •he was careful the..children"'would. 6e. taken away. He called again, *tV fly* o'clock in the evening,, and .founds the woman in the house drunk, while thechildren were running- about He collected the children, and when thewoman came to the street he arrested; her, and took - them all r.to the police station. He ijj&d sincelearnei' that :aster:Xhe -woman' Haa*l>een""w*rii*d by : .him; yesterday ahe, had met-her husband; who gave her 10/^andahe lid.-Spentiih*: lnoneyin drink.' ' ■ :' "' ' ' •'•'< : -His Worship: decided td'Aajourai', *he case tUI. Monday, .in ; brdei_ that f- tSf father of the children: nugSt be "brought. U give hie explanation: of ihe circunistanoes, the chUdren in- rflie mearttnne being -commitied ,td the care of 'lister SS c i n , - Later ' *« .™? fcn «»"-» >*ther: good-looking woman.' of 28 -year*, wis<jonvicte4 M - and. remanded ia custody-jtijl Monday.^