A GENEROUS GIFT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 689, 14 December 1909, Page 3

A GENEROUS GIFT.

—' — TEN ACRES AND A HOME FOR THE .SALVATION ARMY. { TO HELP UNrOBTUNAtfE BOY&. The Saltation Armv >s ncvor at a loss for a fiiond Seldom is thcro a need arising but what it can bo met m ouo wnj or another. Ono nross a few months ago. It t>as thought ! dosinble that the Sihation \rmy should have .1 Bojr , Home—npt an\thing in the foim of an industml homo 01 a relngo for juvenile "wasters"—but a place it hero unfortunate lade 1 , could iceoiio plain education anil ireful knoiv j ' lodge to equal them for life's battle under health- \ , ful, encouraging conditions This need' hasi' ' broil supplied bj Mr. T. N Jenkins, of Ilawcta,) ! «ho has presented the Ami} with tDn acres j of good laud, mid Ins hnd creeled thereon a handsome 25 loomed wooden structure, vhitbJ : is to be known as the Boys' Home Mr Jon- t ' kini is a member of tho Arm}, and his family l , aio eirnost workers under its baaner. Ono o£ j the donor's sons, for instance, Mr. Lcstoclci • Jenkins, noting that there was only an oldi three-bar gato, idoiued (ho property with a. ' handsome iron and concrete- gate, winch con- ■ sidorabh embellishes the cntrar.ee. win is mi officer m Wellington The now home* which is now in Iho last sUgts before comple< , tion, 1 to bo fOTmalh opened by lus Excellency tho Goiornoi on December 28, when Elthaui, will bo iisilcd lij tho district etaff ofliccrsiand S others interested in tho work ■ , Seeking information as to tho exact and \ : specific object of the Bo\s' Home, a Dominion ) ! iopresentati\o vailed on Brigadier Braj, ofiioer , m charge of tho secul branch of tho Army , * I • work in New Zealand In the first place, how ai-e jou going to get i tUo bojs'" asked the rcporUi J "How aio wo going to stop Rotting thorn, yon. moan," said tho Brigadier, with a broad smilo., - "There'll be no trouble pbout getting tho boys \ —there might bo a little anxiotj in selecting • tho right class of boj. We must discnmi-' < mtc" ' Then it is not ,to bo a tort of industrial i school? "Certainly not—wo leave that to tho Govern- » ment Its inolhod ma\ bo right or not, we don't knon We uro not going to ha\o the bo> who has committed lumfclf, or those who haio been brought before the Court, though' that,is tho idea some people have Tho home is> foi t. specific purpose—uoys nho havo ucoa unfortunalo, oiphant> oi senn-orphans—each, case will Iμ considered on its merits. Some of the bo\s htg 'hero olrcadv. : Tho fiist two we admitted wcro the bio boja of i pilot who was drowned at Patca Tho mother was left sick with four children j ire going to help to oarrj her burden, hy ; tiaining and schooling /hoi little boys until thoy aie of an. ago to help her, always keeping ', alive the tie between the parent and tho clul< , dren \ "Wheio are ivo going to get them? Some 1 j timo ago ,i man aimed at oui home here j i with two lini little girls toddling lesido him ' ■ and a baby in his aims It was tragedy—tho wife and mother had died in a tent soinowhore ! up on thu Mam Trunk line Similarly, n man ; who had lost his wife ciime to us with hie ' two little bo\s He luis awaj ill day at lim i\oik, and did not care to gno them in charge of another nonian He was willing to pa\ a i little towards then keep—that's the eoit wo ate 1 putting into the Ultham Homo There nie also j ca'es where a jonng woman is unfortunate. She lo\c- hei child, and wauls to do her bc=t foi at, but cannot Uko lum about with her i from situation to situation She comes to ut, and wo. teach him to iea'l and wijlo, and the ludimcnts of fanning ind we do not forgit to teach him to loio his mother, who is work- : mg foi him out m the world That is a cardinal point—we do iiot eeek to part parents ' , from, their children. . Sometimes, of; course, i there are occasions when we do not think it advisablo for the pirents* to see their chil- j dren, but that would onlv be wheie there us good cause foi it Perhaps tho mother drinks. , Von well Wo get oui officers to work en the woman's feelings, to tell her that her babv is giowing into ,i lino httlo man, who will ~ bo a credit to hei It it often the saving i of such— thei haie something to lne for, t<» hopo for, and thc\ tako a pull r "We will get a little assistance in somo cases, but it is not the monetarj of matters that counts in this home What we will get will not half keep up tho homo, only it is good for the parents that they should not lo«o ill Bcn«e of re<;pon>:ibilitr in resroct to their children. "Tho home is «iluated on the top of a lidge that commands a fmo view of Mount Egmont—that embodiment of inspiration Ttera )b ttn henes of land to grow vegetables, and run a little dairy farm on Tho new homo will bo in cliiiigo of Mr nnd Mrs. Glitherow, late of the People's Palace, Wellington, who will bo assisted bj an efficient stnff, including a school loachei " . > i