DR BARNARDO’S HOMES

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43091, 11 May 1907, Page 4

DR BARNARDO’S HOMES

\ T.m its quarterly issue for March,

“Night and Day” has an absorbingly interesting St6ry tor trill '"about Dr. Barnardois Homes, which it repre- " J sents. -It speaks • about a family of the builder’s 'hands, fill up with coal eight, thousand inmates, admitting from below the poverty line eight or

nine boys’ and girls every day, ’-and comprising cripp l es, -• .■ incuraibles, • babies, deaf and dumb,' and 1 blind and

helpless among its vailed -flock. No

wonder that it needs money—money for. the victualling, clothing, and j. countless needs of a, big town ! This l is the month of emigration, when, the ] Homes send off to Canada their

spring" party. Some' 350 •'boys and girls, carefully chosen for health, for intelligence and- for : ndustrious habits hare gone forth, bringing the grand total up to 18;994, of whom, it is the

Homes’ proud boast, that ninety-eight in a. hundred have proved themselves worthy and successful colonists. The magazine reports a husy year, and its figures preach eloquently and surprising! v as to the need which still exists for rescue work such as Dr. Barnardo’s Homes have carried on for forty years; Two thousand and ninety-one permanent admissions a year means an unhbiinkble amount of child sufferin.g alone. The general contents of “Night and Day” are informative and interesting, and the illustrations, from •photographs, are illuminating. The Naval Branch has had a ship given to it. 14, new Branch Home has been opened at Chapham. Sir Gilbert Parker, M,P.. and the Bishop of London speak strenuously in favour of the work. The Bishop describes the characteristic of the Homes- as bein “No red tape.”