ANGLICAN BOYS' HOME

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1915, Page 2

ANGLICAN BOYS' HOME

"Despite the presertt financial stress, the work of the . Wellington Anglican Boys' Homes Society has beqn carried on during the past year as efficiently as in previous years. This it was enabled to do owing to a grant of £50 from the Macarthy Trust." — Extract from the annual report of the committee of management of the institution. The report also states that there are now fifteen boys in the home. During the year three were admitted and three left, two of whom Were placed with farmers, and circumstances enabled one boy to return to his own home. The board hopes to complete the purchase of the property at Lower Hutt by the 7th June, when the present mortgage expires, and it makes this appeal to sympathisers for £50 to enable it to do so. With this sum, added to the £200 now in hand for this purpose, and some assistance from its bankers, it will secure the property, which after some years' experience has proved most suitable for the purpose. The number of urgent and suitable cases for admission which come Under the notice of the board and the limited capacity of the home compel the board to seriously consider the question of opening a second home. As soon as the income of the society permits, this will be done. The board expresses its entire satisfaction with the management and influence of the home. Not only is the training of the boys in good hands, but the house is economically managed and the garden made very reproductiveSufficient vegetables have been grown to supply the house until next springOn Saturdays and at other suitable times the boys readily obtain light employment in the immediate neighbourhood, their earnings assisting materi' ally with the boots and clothing account. Mr. Heseltine's experience and the large garden enable the boys to acquire a knowledge of gardening which in after life will be of great service to them. The Government Inspector of Charitable Homes has more than once inspected the house, and expressed complete satisfaction with all the arrangements, as well as the opinion that another home on the same Unas is urgently required. The board takes this opportunity of thanking the many contributors of both money and kind ; and trusts, owing to the pressing need of an extension of the work, that these gifts may increase. Not only is the work of the society most necessary and capable o£ extension, but is being carried on, according to the opinion of experts, in> a very efficient manner. These opinions, so often expressed to members of the board, encourage it to make a further appeal to sympathisers to supply the means necessary to enable it to carry on with greater vigour.