THE AUCKLAND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1300, 16 April 1872, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

(DAILY southern cross.) On the morning of the 11th instant,, some young children were brought before the presiding Justices of the Police Court, Auckland, by Mr Stickler, master of the Homo for Neglected Children* to be re-committed for longer periods. The time for which each of these children had been ordered to- remain at the Home had expired, but all of them were too young to be cast loose upon society; and it was for this reason that Mr Stickley applied for their detention. These children were, for the greater number, the offspring of dissolute and abandoned parents, and, but for good offices i-endered by the Industrial School, would be left to live as they best might, without home, without instruction, and a drain upon privatecharity. Mr Stickley spoke hopefully of the whole of the children, with oneexception. This was a girl, some thirteen or fourteen years old, who had. declared to, the matron that so. soon as she regained her liberty she would follow the footsteps of her mother—a woman whose calling, may scarcely be mentioned. The children, looked as if they had been extremely well cared for, being clean, neatly dressed, and healthy of appearance, All of them, with the exception of the young girl referred to, appeared well pleased at the pi'ospeot of returning to school. There is nothiug to prevent, any of these children being apprenticed, out to trade, or engaged for service; but during the term they areremitted to school the master has the pover to receive them back again should they not suit their or if their employers are found to be unfit persons to have them in their custody. What money they earn, is- placed totheir credit in the Savings Bank, to be given to them when they become of discreet age. There are upwards of. 50 children in this school, all of whom, may be described as " brands plucked from the burning.'' They are taught to read, and like other children are fond of amusing books. Children's books are not costly now-a-days. If any parent has got a few by him which are now in disuse, or if any one will open his heart to lay out a few shillings on, the purchase of a dozen Aolumes, they will be thankfully received by themaster, and warmly welcomed by the children. Not those over-good and solemn reading-books which some children are supplied with, but something in the Jack-the-Giant-killing line, or books of adventure and peril; boob* that will make boys laugh and wonder, and sometimes think just ever so little. These should go to the home of these orphans, deserted and blighted little ones. Has any one to spare a " Robinson Crusoe," an " Arabian Nights," or some of pretty German tales ; or an illustrated natural history, or a book of shipwrecks and disasters, and of battles with lions and tigers and ele« phants 1 ? If he has, let, one or the other or any be sent to the industrial School. The donor will feel present satisfaction, and in a hundred yeats hence the gift will not be missed.