NEGLECTED AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12395, 20 February 1908, Page 5

NEGLECTED AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN.

(Per United, Press Associi.tion).

CHRISTCRL'-UCIi, February 18. A largely attended public meeting was «.eid to-night to consider the question of the destitute, and neglected children of the State, and the following notions were carried: That this meeting affirms the following principles: that thesState, standing in the place of parents to such neglected and destitute children as are (1) directly under its cna,rge, (2) boarded out or supported by local bodies, (3) placed in charge of religious bodies, should^provide, by virtue of such responsibility and in view of the disabilities imposed on such children the best possible training and education; that the boarding out system at present in vogue is not in accord with the principles afiu^ned in resolution 1, and is therefore condemned by this meeting, whatever may have been Its utility as a makeshift in the past; that this meeting earnestly recommends to the serious consideration of the' Minister and the Government the cottage home system, as providing all the conditions lacking under the present system of boarding out children.