TE ORANGA HOME.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 115, 7 February 1908, Page 4

TE ORANGA HOME.

, .CHARGES OF'MISMANAGEMENT. .METHODS OF PUNISHMENT. ""i (BT I EIiEQUAPII —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT-) .L • Christchurch, February. 6. The, |/.fXyttolton f Times "• is once more briuging the management of To Oranga Homo undor tho notico of tho public. It publishes.J.this. .morning . a statement :'that more troublo arisen at the institution, 'ahd .that more charges of mismanagement are made, against {lie managing matron, Mrs. Brantmg. , " The , subject," says the " Times;" has ■ been brought up again by tho fact that ouo of tho girls who was strapped while jiull-health had to bo taken to tho Christchurch, Hospital. Sho remained has - now been dis--'cJidrgcd,. and is back m tho Homo. It is stated;that' ; favoUfitism is rampant in; the in-' stitution,_ '-and ; -that*it leads;.' . to muoh ,-:rjrnjustice-."%,...; "'Girls ;, who :: ' p.ro ; not; continues, the . 1 ,"Times," : "sa.y. that f it juscless to try to please.,., According'.' tb.. tup I ', statement circulated, jiharsh.fless is 'displayed ;in 'th"o. punishmehts.;'. Som'o 'of : .the; girls' say''that 'they carry "the marks of tho manager's strap on, their bodies for 'days: Tho method/seems to bo" to make the delinquent lie on. her l.bcd while tlio strap is brought dow'n .frith pthd?'-full' forco of tho manager's • arm;; as-many ias; twelve" strokes being given -/at a Wind. Girk who havo /listened to .ifth'eri being, punished,, it is stated, r; 'liavo cried to hear .tlio groans' and sobs.; _.Thero are two cells'iri the' institution. •They are. used for.,solitary confinement. In •one !cas6>' according supplied,. a girl was placed,iir.a'j?elli for two days /for no offence ; excej)^swfiatVQne',of> the. assistants termed becavso.the assistant ,had bneu'iateSyMib.v tlio', girl! . Offenders 'have been ;k£ftt;ay!i;e''ceils 'for several weeks without. 'seeing : .anyone oxcopt the attendant'; ?who,- took; mie'?|6^'..,' Anothci;, charge, is that ■;'tlio '.managerJl6es!';iiot givo tho girls a chance-' 315 defend They... are riot allowed'. ?to talk' at', and are punished; for; being' sent away, from' •tho .table. \ that a - girl- has not, done';'a sho,;, may be : giveii for many of, the girls .-tp .'W?B%-/sl*tirt'' , ratipnsS : . -.-'•They riseiat the dormitories. ,at 'soVen.- :iV i .Th'Bj r s immediately start iwork. Some do- liousehpld'work, and others milk, the cows, ■ clean'; tidy:,the yardsj.vanfl. so ; . haypl, breakfast at B;.aim.y.^iij^'(^^^^pidro'' : wflrl{!.is-;ifdun(i.' ■for !thom. ;Tney fell trees, cut all. the fir'oivoodf'fusffig >the /axcTand -the : crosscut, saw), 7j)laritani .dig->-pbtato6s,-.. griib -: gorso ;:'and : broom;.,and.do' other 'manual work,-'including' tlio ip'dikti'iig 'of'the'fence's." '' '/ •/''•;•''•

sr VTLAJT\T I3\ Ti-ir Ho\ g fowlds. I hcMtiVrstcr in* Ghnn*o of Hospitals aiid' Charitable, Institutions (the-Hon. 6; Fowlds), said last' evening that.*he ■ had como to/tlio "bbrielusign;it,KoiU.cl in.order to satisfy ; >tho''public mind;'' to; hold tho : Commission''" of, Inquiry; "=Hb : had recognised this from ■ tho. way; the, agitation had been con-' .tmucd'.in .Christchurch and'elsewhere, since the "complaints were first made. It would give those,in,charge a chance of defending themanagement. •.'..■The present trouble, lie believed, had n;rispii;fj-pm tho\ dischargo |ot< a member'of the staff who had been reported 'as : acting disloyally. v