ORPHAN CHILDREN

Evening Star, Issue 17062, 5 June 1919, Page 6

ORPHAN CHILDREN

.At the Town Hall, at noon to-day, th< Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister of Education, met representatives of the Society for tlit Protection of Women and Children, the Women's National Council, the Presbyterian .Social Service Association, the Iniiuenza Belief Commit lev, the St. Vincent do Paul Society, the Women's Citizen's League, and the. Presbyterian Men'a League. 'J.no Kev. V. G. Bryan King stated the purpose of the interview. Children who were left orphans in the influenza epidemic were committed nominally to an industrial school; but relatives who wished to have them were allowed to exercise guardianship. The deputation wished the. Government to do away with the nominal committal to the industrial school, because it might cast a stigma on the children. The deputation thought thai guardianship should be made simpler and in in c soci itio i -.uh ia the P S S V , oi i.i committees appointed in the four t I it

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