Industrial Homes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 106, 12 April 1883, Page 3

Industrial Homes.

: [Communicated.] Many of our representatives afo much troubled iv finding that so many of the children (who have, been depen« .dent upon the Government for support) have turned out failures so far as character is concerned. The" mistake of placing the juvenile criminals as their companions is already seen, therefore, we ate pleased to soe an effort is being made to separate these elases, also the, sexes ; m the hope that., then all will go well, and that for the future glowing accounts will be the re^. ward of such an effort. : How interested the hearerß were ,-tlo. listen to Dr Stephenson's lectures, and fa'cW given respecting, his Homes m England ss were alsb the juveniles, when hearing the Rev. Mr William?, when addressing them a few Sundayjs, ago m the Palmerston Wesley an Church, and those facts related are not peculiar to his Homes, but are a true index of similar institutions at Home. If the various separations mentioned are to be the only reforms, the Home experiences will never be ours. jj-, If »the Government are not m a posv-.tion-for else do cot care to trouble, that at least; orphans should be made. respectable' members of ; society, m the : form of good servants > and workmen, why should not: the public support an institution for themselves, to- be carried <out;entirely'upoh the industrial princi« pie:; then, m a few years the colony owuld;reap the benefit. -