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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 117, 15 May 1909, Page 6

Three little children sat gravely eating biscuits, provided as a last gift, on the benches in the Magistrate's Court at Oamaru on Saturday morning, while the father asked for their committal to the Caversham Industrial School. There was, says the Oamaru Mail, another, a baby of four months, but the, father, who had had>to dress the children, could not finish .the toilet -of the baby in time for Court. It was a .sad' story, told by a man with wet eyes. "Mother very delicate and unable to look a*ter the children; father re-i ceiving 21s a week; debt, efforts by the father to care for the children proving too much for him—then the Court." There is nothing against the father or the mother in any way. The affection of the children for the father, warmly • returned, added pathos to the query: "Iflgo to the Home can I see them sometimes?" The parents have only been a few months in Oamaru. Mr Hutchison, who was evidently in sympathy with the father, committed the children, and the forlorn family trailed out of Court.