Orphanage Matron Gained Experience In Bolivia
Daughter of a minister, Miss D. M. Smith, who has been appointed matron to the North Auckand Protestant Orphanage, was born in England and came to New Zealand at an early age.
She considers herself a New Zealander.
For many years she taught in Sunday schools and has always been intensely interested in children.
She is a graduate of the New Zealand Bible Training Institute.
For five years she was matron of a home connected with a school for the children of missionaries in Bolivia. She felt it a privilege to be able to bring up the children who would be inmates of the orphanage, she said. It was her aim to make the orphanage more of a home than ,an institution.
The appointments of % Tikipunga Orphanage were almost perfect.
In Bolivia there had been no copper at the home where she was in charge, and water had to be carried more than a quarter of a mile in buckets.
Fifteen English, American and New Zealand children had then been under her care.
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Northern Advocate, 15 December 1939, Page 9
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