INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ACT
AN UNCONTROLLABLE GIRL. (Per Uhited Phess Association.) WELLINGTON, Midi 16. Tiie provisions of the Industrial Schools Amendment Act- were brought into force in Wellington for the first time to-day The act empowers the police to bring aiiy uncontrollable child before a magistrate to be committed to an industrial school. The -present case was a girl, 14J years of age, who had run away from home thrice. The mother stated that the girl was beyond her control. The girl was committed to St. Joseph's Orphanage.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14784, 17 March 1910, Page 8
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