SUPPERLESS CHILDREN.
PAll lOXTS' OB LIGATIO.WS. u ny ELKCTIUC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCI»»K)N.] (Received This Dav, !).40 a.m.) UK HI, IX, April 12. Enquiries made hy the German Bureau of Popular Welfare in 125 towns, revealed the I act that 22,000 children in winter, and .'i(i,0()0 in summer, were sent to school without hreakfa.st, 180,000 in winter and 113,000 in summer were sent without dinner, 'and that 22.000 went to bed without supper. This was due to poverty ami to the absence of mothers at work. The Bureaux deprecates making feeding obligatory, and advises the establishment of independent organisations to feed children. and recover the cost from parents who nro in employment.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 April 1910, Page 3
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112SUPPERLESS CHILDREN. Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 April 1910, Page 3
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