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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1289, 12 November 1896, Page 42

It is not a pleasant thing to be obliged to take children from the control of their parents and place them in industrial schools to be brought up under not altogether pleasant conditions and devoid of all knowledge of home life and its incidental associations, but when they are neglected by dissolute parents it is duo to society and the children themselves that the authorities should step in. A few remarks were made by Mr Wardell on this subject on Friday, when he said it was always with regret that he made orders of this character under the Industrial Schools Act, particularly when poverty was not the ground on which the Court was moved. Hut when the conduct of the parents was such as to lead him to believe that the welfare of their offspring was jeopardised he felt it incumbent upon him to sever the family ties. If parents did not look after their children properly they would have to lose the pleasure of their society. Some male bipods have played a dastardly triek on the pitch which has been under preparation on the Basin Eeserve to be used by the Australian cricketers. For some distance the ground has been torn about and holes made, completely destroying the pood work the caretakers of the ground have done. We trust the perpetrators will be discovered and punished.