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Waipa Post, Volume XII, Issue 897, 29 January 1920, Page 5

The weekly half-holiday at Balclutha has been changed from Wednesday to Saturday. Circulars from Dr. Barnardo’s Home, to hand by mail, give interesting details of the work done by that institution. The director opens his letter with the statement :—“ I feel like the old woman who lived in a shoe, who had so many children she didn’t know what to do.” The Barnardo Family now numbers 7291 boys and girls. During the half-century that has elapsed since Dr Barnardo started his home in Stepney, gathering in 25 little children, 88,607 have been rescued. Since the war broke out, 8470 have been received, and 10,715 old Barnardo boys served as soldiers or sailors.