WARDS OF THE STATE.
MR PA HR EXPLAINS. CIIRI ST Clll R CII, June 27. Regarding the protests against tho Lh-v----ernme-nt’s proposal with regard to orphanages, tho lion. .Parr said: i am not going to do an;, i hing to hurt the orphanages. A good deal of unnecessary sh am is being, blown oft by soni" of my friends: in tho churches. ’1 he policy A rani rolled by me, not by the eicpaa rment ai eiheer whose report has caused some of my friends to get the ‘‘wind up.” Cabinet controls the legislation with regard to orphanage*. As a matter of fact, there arc only 34 orphans who have lost ho til parents in the church orphanages of New Zealand, whereas in the State institutions there are over 500. Such orphans are mainly in splendid foster homos, i may remark also that the p iv.»te orphanages are saving money to the (Government.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 23
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153WARDS OF THE STATE. Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 23
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