NEW INSTITUTION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19988, 13 July 1939, Page 16

NEW INSTITUTION

WERAROA BOYS’ FARM STAFF REORGANISATION PROP' >SAPS ANNOUNCED AID TO TRAINING (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Plans 'have been prepared for a complete new institution, to replace the Weraroa Boys’ Training Farm, said the assistant Director cf Education, Dr. C. E. Beebv. during an address on the work of the Child Wei* fare Department ho .the Women’s Division of the Farmers' Union yesterday. With new buildings and a reorganised stall the institution would be -able to achieve its ends better, he said. Dr. Beeby said that a [fuller and better statement than he could make would be made in another place. The Weraroa Boys' Training Farm was not a prison. The boys at Weraroa were the 'ones for whom the Child Welfare Department felt there was some hope that they would become decent citizens. The buildings at Weraroa were inadequate and unsuitable for the classification of boys being trained to the end he had mentioned and so it had been impossible to conduct the institution in the way che department would have liked. He was optimistic about the future of the institution. It was necessary, of course, to protect property, and that protection, it was hoped, would be obtained with new buildings' and the reorganisation of the staff. It was not a recent problem.