CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6340, 21 November 1898, Page 4

CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY.

The fortnightly meeting of the coro> nuttee. of the Children's Aid Society was held on, Thursday evening in the City Council Chambers ; present — • Mesdames Weli3, Blake, Bendely, Cole, Black, '"Lees, Henderson, Sister Marion, Misses Ross and. Henderson, and Messrs W. Chrystall, J. O'^Bryen Hoare, I. Sarginson, J. Blank and Cox. Apologies for absence were received from the Eev A. C. Hoggins and Mr E. O'Connor. A letter was read from the Premier of Victoria enclosing copies of the Victorian Children's Protection Act of 1890 and the Infant Life Protection Act, these having been asked for by the committee. A. sub -committee was appointed to stndy these Acts along with the New Zealand Industrial Schools Act,' and to report to the next meeting. The Kindergarten Committee reported v that it had been successful in securing a hall for a school, situated on the South Belt, near Montreal Street, and that handbills had been posted in the neighbourhood announcing the establishment of the school. The action of the sub-committee was approved. It was agreed that the children should be received into the school provisionally, and that the families represented should be visited by the subcommittee and teachers so as to insure that the special class of children for whom the school was designed should benefit by -it. The sub-committee was appointed a standing committee, and the names of Mrs Lees and Mr Blank were added to it to assist in the visiting. The question of opening a second school in the north end of the city was deferred until after the holidays. The funds of the Society having reached a sum considerably over .£IOO, it. was agreed to ask the Government for a subsidy, and it wa3 left to Mr 3 Wells and the officers of the Society to take the necessary steps in regard to the matter, and to report to the next meeting. A. hearty vote of thanks was passed to M r's Saiinders for her endeavours in behalf of the Society in connection with the entertainment recently given in St Michael's schoolroom. Accounts were passed for payment, and the meeting closed.

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