A FEMALE REFUGE CLOSED.
AN EFFECT OF THE FACTORY ACT. (BY TKLKGRArir. — ASSOCIATION*.] Di/XKm.v, Wednesday, As a result of the closing of the female refuge owing to its having been declared a factory, four out of eight maternity cases before the Benevolent Trustees to-day were lain inmates of the refuge. In discussion it was said that the refuge had been always open to the inspector of factories or the general public. As a result of the closing down four children would have to go to the Industrial School, and the mothers were anted relief until they obtained situations It was unanimously resolved to ask the members for the city and suburbs to usa their influence in ting philanthropic institutions like the refuge excluded from the operations of the Factory Act.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12068, 11 September 1902, Page 5
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