AN INCORRIGIBLE BOY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1864, 19 September 1906, Page 4

AN INCORRIGIBLE BOY.

I'UIiSS ASSOCIATION I'miaru, yustorday. A oaso of uioro than ordinary iotnret occupied tbo attention of tbo South CDntotluiy Hospital and Uharitab'o Aid Boiud tc-iay. An orphan lad, nainid Francis, a cripple, 18 yoara of ago, who has been braided out by tho Board ever tULim- infancy, recently ran away iroin bia homo to Otiristehuioh, and thiro caino before ilio Sainatitau Trustees, to whom he told a very pitiful tale, and one which, had it been true, would have ODuvio'.od tho South Ganlorbury Boaid of gross nigoot ui d indlioioncy. Toe Samarit in T.u tecs accepted the boy’s ttory without question, mid at a moatiug of tho South Canterbury Board to-day strong oijeo'.icn waa taken to tbia, as if tbo Trustees had taken the t oublo to i qu t) they would have fiU’.d that tho boy’a story waa false in almost every do'ut l . Tbo boy eud be could neither real nor write, and that ho bud been il-taa'ed in bia hotxto at Tuuotu but Iho Buttl'd had reports btforo them todry showi-g that tba boy had bom to aohool and could lead and write ua Well as tbo other boys in his clues, arid that in hia be me ho had received very kind treatment, which ho repaid by behaviour of tho moat revolting kind. Fir this oonduct ho recently rec.ived a thrashing, whercupjn he go» away by sumo unknown tneaLß to Oinialchurcb. Tho maitir is being brought up in the House, and the Secretary was irot uoied to reply to tho Ministoi'a inquiry by Bcudirg the reports of tbo police and headmaster of the Timiru South Sohoul.