ANGLICAN HOME FOR BOYS

Evening Star, Issue 16881, 2 November 1918, Page 9

ANGLICAN HOME FOR BOYS

AT VAUXHALL OPENED BY THE PRIMATE THIS AFTERNOON. In response, to the invitation of the committee of the. Anglican Memorial Home for Boys, a largo number of citizens were present tills afternoon at tho opening of the first of these hemes in the Dunedin diocese. It is at Vauxhall, Anderson Bay. The service was conducted by the Primate, Dr Nevill, and the other speakers were tho Mayor of Dunedin (Mr J. J. Clark) and the chairman of the Boys’ Home Committee (the Rev. J. L. Mortimer). Tho property adjoins the Grant’s Braes property on which tho Presbyterian Boys’ Home stands. The approach ia by the foreshore road, branching off the Anderson Bay tram line. The land measures about 10 acres, half being building land and the rest set apart for grazing. The present building is a substantial and modernised brick house of seven rooms, vrith electric light and ail up-to-date conveniences.

Fifteen boys are to bo accommodated in tins home. It is tho first of four or five which it is proposed to build on the same, land, in order to complete the scheme for housing from 50 to 100 boys. Tho scheme is to bo developed on the cottage-home system, which has been successful in England and Australia, each cottage being in charge of a motherly woman.

Those eligible for admission are orphan boys, the boys belonging to absent soldiers, and any other boys that it may he expedient to control in the home either temporarily or for a boy’s career. Primarily the home is intended for Church of England boys, but admission will not be refused to auv others.

The Rev. R. de Lambert is appointed as organiser of the scheme, and it is part of his duty to visit the whole of the diocese. Part of that duly is already completed, and now that a start has been made with one home, this gentlman will continue his organising tour. Of the £10,500 required to finance tho scheme, about £5,000 is now in hand.

From the rale at which tho work ia developing, ‘further provision must shortly be made to deal with the many applications for admission, and the building of a second home is an urgent necessity. One pari of the scheme is the endowment of cots in memory of fallen soldiers. The idea of memorial cots fits in very well with the original proposal that tha establishing of these homes should bo the Church’s diocesan war memorial,' and, besides, a memorial cot is an inspiration to the boys. The cost of endowing such a cot is £IOO.