NEGLECTED CHILDREN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1714, 3 April 1913, Page 5

NEGLECTED CHILDREN.

RUNNING WILD IN THE BUSH. TeleGraph.—Press Association.) • Invercargill, April 2. l At the.Polico Conrij'teforo'te!/Criiickshanks," S.ii;,' Jphn, Boyes,, si labourer at '. Lady,'.Barkly,. was .fhargMt .with .■neglcct- ,', : ing ;liis twq children. r : 7 l&rgeaiit. Simpson . ' Bttid'tliat "defehdant .could'inot leave; drink alone, and. had frequently been hunted out : .of Winton owing -to his'habits. ' His ' L 'wife ;ft'as . unablb to live with him, and . was residing with Boyes's father, wlio, in a letter'to Mr.,T.Prydo (secretary of the '• Charitable Aid Board) had' described his son as u "drunken waster," •/ When Constable Anderson ivent'.to defendant's place. lie,found the children running wild in. ",;the. bush, ■•anil feeding ~ on',' raw. rabbits' ; ; flesli, which they had ' found:' .Mr. T. I'rydo and Mr. A.; M'lean 1 (city 'mission-1 vV'ary) gave evidence. as to' defendant's .ways ; v of-.living. '.'' The children, ha'd been;:abso- ; lutely ueglcetrd, not having been washed for a coiisidurublo time. Tho defendant said that his wife had been the cause of • it all.'i His 'Worship said Boyes was 'im'.fit : .to! loolc'after..the.'. welfaj'o' of such : . br'jglit children, and he would have, to . placethenio in the Lorno Farm Home. - Defendant was : ordered; to pay is.per ;wsok each towards, their, upkeep;