TALK ON WAIKERIA BORSTAL INSTITUTE

Waikato Independent, Volume XLV, Issue 6234, 4 May 1949, Page 4

TALK ON WAIKERIA BORSTAL INSTITUTE

The monthly meeting of the Cambridge Branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute was held at the High school when Mr S. B. Dunn, president oVer a good attendance of members to hear a. talk by Miss E. M. Ray J.P., on a visit she paid to the Waikeria Borstal Institution. Miss Ray explained that the Institute was mainly for young offenders and took the form of five well developed modern dairy farms with over 600 cows. The farms supplied all the surrounding, schools with milk produced and bottled on the farm. Tobacco was grown and the three tons of leaf produced last year when mixed with some, Nelson leaf provided sufficient tobacco for all the institutions of the Prisons Departments in New Zealand. There are a large number of sheep and horses on the farm, and an apiary and orchard provide goods for export. The farm is as self sufficient as possible and has its own bakery, butcher’s shop, laundry and library. * The reformative effects of such institutions were discussed and the general’ problems of anti-social behaviour were also mentioned. A general discussion' over a cup of tea concluded the meeting. Cambridge has the youngest branch of the Educational Institute, which is a professional association of teachers whose objects are to advance the cause of Education generally and uphold the just" claims of its members.