Neglected Children.
THE STATE WILL NOT HAVE THEM. [By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Christchurcb, This day. At the S.M. Court this morning two children, aged three and two years, were brought up as destitute. Their parents, being in indigent circumstances, were unable to support them. The police stated that the father was a bricklayer and was an out patient of the Wellington Hospital from the effects of an accident. The mother was in domestic service at Timaru. The children had been taken charge of by a church woman, but the payment of maintenance being greatly in arrears she asked that they should be sent to Burnham. Counsel for the Charitable Aid Board said the father had commenced an actiou to recover £IOO damages, and the mother was earning 12s Gd per week. The Board was prepared to send the children to the father, and if he were unable to support them he could apply to the Wellington Board to assist him until circumstances improved. The S.M. declined to relieve the parents of their responsibility, as the mother was earning quite sufficient to carry out her contract with the woman who took charge of them. The Board must take its own course as to the children. The Court could make do order or recommendation.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 357, 26 June 1897, Page 2
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213Neglected Children. Hastings Standard, Issue 357, 26 June 1897, Page 2
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