APPALLING CONDITIONS.
CHILDREN THIEVE LUNCHES WELFARE DEPARTMENT'S ACTION The condition of a family at Melville prior to the intervention of the Child Welfare Department was something appalling. The children were starving, and to gain some means of sustenance were forced to steal the lunches of other children at school, the Child Welfare Officer explained to Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court this morning, during the hearing of an application for a maintenance order against the estate of the late grandmother of the children. Hr pointed out that three of the children were now out at board and the two eldest are under the supervision of the department. The mother was living with a young man, and the father, against whom a warrant for arrest had been issued, could not he located.
An order against the estate for 15s a week in respect of each of, three children was made.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18359, 19 June 1931, Page 6
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152APPALLING CONDITIONS. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18359, 19 June 1931, Page 6
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