THE LOOK-OUT POINT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1500, 14 August 1880, Page 14

THE LOOK-OUT POINT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

w 4 There can be no doubt that the Industrial School at Look-out Point is overcrowded, but this fact has been repeatedly represented by Mr Titchener. In all other respects the institution is apparently in a very, satisfactory state. A representative from this journal found, on Saturday last, the whole of the apartments of the institution scrupulously clean,' the children healthy and cheerful, and that excellent discipline was maintained. At the present time there are 239 children in the School, of whom 70 are girls ; and there are licensed out to service and p'acad with their parents 166 children. During the present year there have been four deathfl, but of these only one occurred within the School, the others being infants placed out to nurse, and two of them were the children of women committed to the Lunatic Asylum, and were in a very emaciated state when taken from their parents. The inmates of the School take a great interest in learning music, and have made surprising progress. Some of them possess remarkably sweet and powerful voices, and Bing difficult solos and concerted pieoes with precision, while most of them are, for children, toleably fair musicians. Many of the children who are placed at service write frequently to the master of the institution, and their earnings are remitted to him for safe keeping. Many wil, earn with surprise that he has received and placed to the credit of 104 children, who are at service, sums amounting in all to LIOOO. During the present year some extensive improvements have been made about the School by the work of the children. The largest of these has been the successful excavation from the rock of a reservoir 30 feet by 22 feet, with a depth of 12 feet. The work was accomplished without an accident, and the boys worked at it with a will. From this reservoir water iB pumped to the buildings, and the baths, &c. are supplied from it It may not be out of place to mention that the Bum of LIOB has been expended in mußioand musical instruments for the children, that the Government has not been asked to contribute towards this sum, and that the major portion of it has been given by Mr Titchener, because he believed that it would contribute towards the happiness of his numerous charge. '

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