YOUTHFUL DELINQUENTS.
A QUESTION OP EDUCATION. (SPECIAL TO "THS PRESS.") WELLINGTON, June 9. Under the system prevailing in Now Zealand Eojnc timo ago, delinquent children were heidcd together in industrial schools, a system that came to bo regarded as 'not a good one. Two years ago that system was abandoned, and girls were *cnt to a receiving home, and boys to a prcbaticnary home. Such homc3 exist in all the large centres today, The cbicct was to secure individual attention to each child, with a view of getting them once more under suitable authority of a parental nature. Such children under the new system receivo their education at the ordinary public schools, but the system is objected to by some Education Hoards, School Committees, and teachers in Auckland, and to obviat© this objection it has now been decided, where complaint has been made, to teach such children in the homes to which they are sent. A housemaster, with special experience, has been appointed to deal with the children that have been tho causo of tho objection referred to.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16857, 10 June 1920, Page 6
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178YOUTHFUL DELINQUENTS. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16857, 10 June 1920, Page 6
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