Runaways to be helped
The Maori Wardens' Association plans; to seek out runaway children and return them to their patents. The association’s national president, Mr Peter Walden, said that the children found this week living in concrete ventilation pipes under Karangahape Road were only some of hundreds of runaway children living wild in the city. “We are about to start a total community programme to find and unite these children with their families,” Mr Walden said. “The whole community has to come to grips with this problem. We have to find people willing to help and spend time with these families and no-one else.”
Twenty children, aged between 12 and 16, were flushed from their hideout on Monday by a Ministry of Works gang. . Mr Walden said that some of the children were now out working with work party groups in South Auckland. “We have not had the opportunity to reach some of the families,” he said. “But these children are being cared for and looked after and have been placed in work parties.” Some of the children had gone to stay with families and people wanting to help. But as a group they were now under the care of the Manurewa Maori Committee. Earlier report, page 21
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