LOAFERS ON THE STATE.

NZ Truth, Issue 67, 29 September 1906, Page 3

LOAFERS ON THE STATE.

Callous Parents Who Desert Their Off spring. Loafers on the State are the most despicable people m the community, and they should be stockwhipped into some sort of activity. Any number of children are being kept by Charitable Aid Boards, and are located m Government institutions for whom their parents don't pay a pice. It was stated by a Christohurch magistrate recently that he knew of one man who was the father of half a dozen youngsters, and the State was keeping the whole collection. Which might be right enough if he found himself unable to look, after them, but he never pays a penny piece for them. Well, that's the State's funeral. Idle vagabonds of that fellow's class should be waltzed into the Police Court and asked a few unpleasant though pertinent questions. We want population all right, but we don't want it State reared, nor do we want wasters who bring children into the world and then discard all responsibility as though it were a broken boot lace.