Infant Life Protection.

Manawatu Herald, 28 February 1899, Page 3

Infant Life Protection.

Some two months ago it came to the knowledge of the police that a youDg girl, about 19 years of age, had come to Wanganui says the Chronicle, from Palmerpton North with an infant, a female, about two months old, intending to put the child in the Jerusalem Home. She took the child up to Jerusalem, bur, as Mother Mary Joseph Auberfc was away in Wellington, the Sisters in charge refused to admit the inf int into the Home. The girl thereupon t «'k the child by the steamer to PipiriUi and undo a gift of it to a native there. The police, after making inquiries, informed the girl that unless Fhe recovered the infant and placed it under proper care and control, the child would be brought i before the Court under the Industrial Schools Acts. The girl took no steps I to comply with this request, and, aa it was evident that tha child was not being properly cared for, the police brought her before the Court and asked that Vbe should be sent to the Industrial School. The mother ap. peared in Court and off-red to contiibute 5s a week towards the infant's maintenance, and stated that the father had left the colony, and was supposed to be dead. The magistrate (Mr Kettle) suggested that the mother should make an effort to keep the child herself, and suggested that she might find some respectable person who was willing to take charge of it. The matter waa accordingly adjourned with a view of seeing whether this could be done. Mr Ritchie, secretary of the Charitable Aid Board, was present in Court, and objected to the child being sent to the Induptrial School, on the ground that it was born in Wellington, and only brought into this district for a purpose which had failed, and that it would be unfair to saddle this district with the cost of the child's maintenance. He undertook to assist the mother in finding someone who would take charge of the child, and, we understand that satisfactory arrangements have be >n made, and that the infant is now under proper care and control. The police are making inquiries as to the father of the child, and, in the event of his being found, a warrant will be issued for his arrest. « MAKING~BOTH~ENDS MEET," is rather a difficult task in life with many but the expense of good cooking is reduced to a minimum by using the SUN BAKING POWDER, purer and cheaper than most others. Give it a trial. YOU CAN'T Have a cake and eat it too, but you can have your meat and Vcv >t i" ♦*"» "-nrmfiflt of weather by using " SalsaUNS," the great food preservative TO TRAVELLERS. Wolfe's Schnapps is of inestimable value, and should be procured as a medicinal provision for every Journey in which the water is likely to vary. It is an absolute corrective of the injurious proper* ties of impure water. A SAFE INVESTMENT r »f money is the problem of Ihe day, buying" Fa'jSaiinb" is a safe investment, for one shilling packet preserves twenty shillings worth of Milk, Meat, and all Buch perishable goods, and is odourless and harmless.

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