LYTTELTON ORPHANAGE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 741, 14 May 1886, Page 12

LYTTELTON ORPHANAGE.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, May 12. At a meeting of the Charitable Aid Board to-day a report was presented from the Orphanage Committee, enclosing anoth-r from the newly-appointed master, who says :—“ I was surprised to find on taking up my duties at the Orphanage that the children had been grossly neglected in many respects, particularly the girls, who, as regards clothing, were in a state, bordering closely on destitution, while the hair dressing apparatus for ninetysix children, consisted of half an old dressiug comb. As to food, I found the dinners were fairly good, but the milk given for breakfast and tea had been so diluted with water that it would not make a good drink for a thirsty child, and much less an article of diet. I found the floors of the dormitories clean, but 4he blankets belonging to each bed without exception were dirty, and many of them filthy, but all folded with the greatest care and neatness.” In consequence of the above reports from the Master, as well as personal inspection, the Committee has taken the necessary steps to have the institution and its inmates placed in a thoroughly efficient state. Samples of the blankets and clothes were produced at the meeting, and three members of the Board who had visited the Orphanage confirmed the report.