DESTITUTE CHILDREN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12935, 15 October 1907, Page 8

DESTITUTE CHILDREN.

Six children, between hve ***wM | teen years, were brought befdmK |' Kiiepoi Court on AugUft | committed to the ' Receiving-')P» fr They had been found in * **W*_H| fe •tarring condition in-a hooae'ltlH m •rtreet, and the mother, Mn-iwjw I waa unable' to ■ provide for m garding this family, tlie CharitMHM m Board has estimated .the coat flf&Hj SI maintenance till the' children iPS fl «ge will bo £300.' ' • '"'ffli § Yesterday the father, W. S*f_Hi ft horse driver at Hiindalee, sposstmm If Keiapoi before Mr- V. f S.M., on an application for •njPjf a In' reply to Sergeant » ant said his wages were 7* *Wi J i§f §,• he was not paid for broken If food cost 13s per week.. He WJgiK X been, aware th© children' were WMffaJ 1 ed, and £2 had reached hit W«i*Jfi |f him just after they were wmimwftfft % Defendant said he could not m «V| '§. the children were taken away.- W The Magistrate: They were d «**raf ft as neglected and in a dirty eotHawfej §|' Continuing, witness said P visited his homo onoo a it had seen no sign of neglect, **» wfe fi children were going toschool, Vjjw !• admitted his wife and'ho * M * l f i ***_fc| I." prohibited, which was his fault tbrtfcjfe fc getting a five-gallon keg of b and drinking too much, but <Msf&sl f' neither of them was addicted to oflgf « Tho Magistrate made «H j_*M to that defendant should eontribut_i»| | per week to the maintenance of ***% is child. Defendant pointed out thM *JjK I a large amount, as he would »*__S f," keep his wife «s well. The M«?"* ,1 S I thought she miglit do |> wards her own maintenance und«r UTO f circumstances. Tho amount of W»»|| fe week could bo paid monthly. Jfli