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Evening Star, Issue 22515, 7 December 1936, Page 14

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LADY G ALWAY'S TNJLBY. An official message from Government House states:—We regret to report that Lady Galway, while riding this morning, was thrown from her horse, and is .suffering from concussion. By the doctor s orders all Her Excellency’s engagements arc cancelled till further notice.—Press Association.. CARE OF ABNORMAL CHILDREN. An Auckland Association message states that the need for the Australian and New Zealand Governments to take greater care of abnormal children was stressed by Dr Lorna Hodgkinson, of Sydney, - ho is proceeding by the Aorangi to study American methods. “ The tragedy is there are thousands of such children in menial hospitals, where they mix with those permanently insane. In America and England proper care is taken in special institutions of mentally defective ami abnormal children. It should be the duty of the State to care for these young lives. It is a disgrace to the State to send feeble-minded boys or girls to prison for an offence. For such proper homes should be provided in Australia and New Zealand, also agricultural stations and industrial colleges for proper treatment and training, such as the children of well-to-do people arc given.” FIRST TEST. At the luncheon adjournment Australia had lost five, wickets for 202 —M‘Cahe 51, Robinson 2, Chipperfield 7, Fingleton 80 (in).