Eight boys and three girls are to bo the first citizens of a “Little Commonwealth” at Batcombe, Dorset, which is to bo a selfgoverning community for delinquent boys and girls. By the end of this month they will be hard at work getting the colony into or der The plan of the (h'orge Junior Republic*. established 34 years ago m America, is bring followed. The boys and girls will themselves make the laws and will receive wages, paying for board and lodging.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 35
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