CARE OF UNFORTUNATE CHILDREN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13635, 19 February 1908, Page 5

CARE OF UNFORTUNATE CHILDREN.

CIIRIgTCBrtJRCIf, February il v A largely attended. public meeting ( was held to-night to consider the question of the destitute and neglected children of the State, and t^e' following tnbtions were cafri<edf:-^THat this meeting the following principles: That the Staf« standing- «S the place of parents td Sitoh neglected;an. destitute children are (1) dicectlj under its onarg'e, (2), oat v or supported by- Ideal bodies, (3). placed tin charge S&. religious .bodies^, jsaoald' , promde, by virtne of*suo^-|esp<QßJsibi|ity a*d in view of the disabilities imposed on .such children, the best $b/jsible training and .education; . that-o-; the boarding-out syptem' at present ,j;in, vogue is not in "accord with -'the principle affirmed in this resolution, and is ! therefore condemned by this whatever may have "been its' utility as a makeshift in the past; that£ this meeting earnestly recommend* td the serious- consideration of the MMister and the Government the. cottage itOTne system as, providing <ftll the lacking under the pr;eeen,t _systeinjsof boarding-put .