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CUSTODY OF CATHOLIC CHILDREN

A legal battle as to whether the two infant children of Ambrose William Hargraves, who was killed in France, should be reared in the Pjotestant Children’s Home, Burwood, N.S.W., or in the domestic circle of the Catholic grandmother, Mrs. Cummings, was decided by the Chief Judge in Equity, Mr. Justice Street, in Sydney recently, in favor of the grandmother’s application. It appears that the children were placed in a home under the guardianship of Bishop Stone V t””- the institution’s organising secretary, who opposed all efforts of the grandmother to secure their custody. The evidence disclosed that Mrs. Cummings was a woman of considerable means. Having dealt with the circumstances of a previous application. Mr. Justice Street, in giving his decision, referred to the correspondence from the father of the children while he was at the war, with Bishop Stone Wigg, respecting the guardianship of the children and the request m one of the letters to hand them over to Mrs. Cummings in the event of his being killed at the war. * 1 am satisfied,” said Mr. Justice Street, “that it is for the welfare of the children that thev should be removed from the institution and handed over to Mrs. Cummings.”

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New Zealand Tablet, 11 July 1918, Page 22

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CUSTODY OF CATHOLIC CHILDREN New Zealand Tablet, 11 July 1918, Page 22

CUSTODY OF CATHOLIC CHILDREN New Zealand Tablet, 11 July 1918, Page 22