Further Evidence.

NZ Truth, Issue 66, 22 September 1906, Page 6

Further Evidence.

The amount of evidence taken at> 'this enquiry will make a good sized, book when it's .all printed. The 'dropped thread was taken up again this week when v Dr. Symes emphatically denied the statement- that he had ordered sick boys to. be brought downstairs instead of visiting them m bed, he examined them wherever he was required to. It rested with the sub: matron to say whether they should be brought downstairs or whether he should go upstairs to visit them. Parson Jasper Smythe said that -during three and a half years he had never seen the manager under, the influence of drink. Archey m his eagerness for the welfare of the boys was apt to' become excited, or even angry* when anything went wrong, and this might mislead any person who did not know him. Lay. ♦evangelist Smail looked upon Burnham as "a dog with a bad narhe," and he would wipe it out altogether. Boys thai shouldn't be there at all should be removed. He advocated a receiving ward where a boy could be kept under observation till it was seen what his temper and nature were. When the boy could be shifted tb the place thought best. There should also be. three other wards, including one for the worst cases. Whether they instituted A TRAINING SHIP tor not there should be some placewhere, boys not fit to be let out at 21 years of age could be held indeterminately. Mrs Black said that under the present system the school Would never be a success. Referring to the manager, she said his manner was impulsive and irritable, and he was therefore apt to be contradictory and concerning ex-inmates, she had heard Archey read __ letter from one of these full of piety and expressing gratitude, but a little while afterwards the writer was sentenced' to ten years for j committing ari abominable offence.