CARE OF ORPHANS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19481, 30 November 1928, Page 5

CARE OF ORPHANS.

PRESBYTERIANS' SOCIAL ' SERVICE. [THE PBBSS Special flenlce.] AUCKLAND, November 20. "The man in the street will more readily give you £5 for the oare of one orphan in New Zealand than he will give £1 for the care of five children in China/' said the Rev. Dr. Jas. Gibb, of Wellington, at the Presbyterian General Assembly, to-day, in commending the work carried oat during the past year by the Presbyterian Social Service Association. "Not only are the bodies and mental welfare of the children cared for in our orphanages, but I believe that great spiritual work is al£o being done. In my opinion the spiritual development of the orphaned children is better than' that of the children in the majority of the homes in New Zealand.' (Applause.) Of all the children who have passed through our orphanage* in Wellington in _ the years I have been connected with it, I have known only one or two cases of moral shipwreck. Practically the whyle of the cliildren who have gone oi*t into the world have made splendid progress SB worthy citizens of New Zealand." (Applause.) ' . Mr J. B. Brugh, of Dunedin, spoke of the splendid influence that was being wielded in the Presbyterian Orphanages. Far too many parents in New Zealand, instead of disciplining ' their children were inclined to give them boxes of chocolates. "We believe," added the speaker, "that if you spare the rod you spoil the child, and that children may be brought op more effectively under our method in a corrugated iron building, than they may be brought np under less effective methods in a marble hall." (Applause.) The Assembly expressed its hearty thanks to all workers engaged in the activities of ; the Presbyterian Social Service Association. ' " '