Industrial School Boys.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7976, 13 November 1905, Page 2

Industrial School Boys.

0 * i'HACTIUAL AND TIIEOKKJ IUAL FARMING. line Ininilrcd nnil live boys Irom the. Cavershani liiduslrinl School (lluno(liii) hiive luissed t-lii-ougli Wellington oh their way to their new home at Levin, in Ibe Wellington district. On arrival Mr Seddon, as Minister for I'ldiicut i'li. vi.'iit on hoard the steamer, ami gave a short address of encouragement to-Hie boys. TUvy then fell (into line, anil, lit-ndi-d l/y the school band, marched to the Wellington and Mantiwatu railway station, when- thv.v .-nirain.-il for Kevin. A bright, healihy-lofdving lot of lails lb.-y Wfiv, elean, ami well set up. Mr •). M. Hurliiison. manager of (•aMishaiu, was in ehai-e of the Ivoys niul will act as inainigfr of Mie new school. He told a reporter that the renx.val of the scholars from I'avcrUham was in fiilliliin-iii t.f the policy

derided upon hy Ihe Minister for Pal- \ neat ion several .wars ago. Tlir Cav- i ersham school in future would he for girlf. only., Tin- work would be extended in the direction of teaching girls cooking -and general domestic work. Ai ihe l.ev'm school, the lirsl. of it« kind in the eolony, Ihe intontion whs lo give boys training in practical and theoretical fanning. It was fell lhat farming was the most, Important industry ,in the colony, and a number of we,l-uaiaed boys should be welcomed ill the farming community. In tS'.IJ .Mr Hurlinson took charge of the Cavcrshnni Industrial .School, which has just hcon removal to lloronhemui. and has controlled it ev.-i since. Ilr has great faith in the future of the'boys who pass through the Government industrial schools. and soys that tin per coin, of the tads liuve turn,-.1 ..lit well. The keynote of his work is the formation ot

■Smraetw. "iiere-dity > " he said, "no. you :«n't. count on that; lhat is mostly a cant phrase. The whole thing is n ructtinn of tiivironinent. (live the rotui(r»ti-r» plwiiy of fresh air. plenty of »ir upacv and romn to inuve about (Mid they have a eha-nce, and you iiYusn't Jude-t. them umil ihe end of the chapter."

Thtf «.a|eß of the laiV range froii nine years to 18 j ~n rs, | mt 011 |y ;l fexv nre under I'J .vpars of age. More lhan half of the sfpiail that went t« the Horoixhenna Home on'Phurmhix are North Islanders, and there xvere a large number of relative* of ihe youngtiters on the railway station to •peak with the.in for the'little flute aTa-ilahlM. l-'a'nhei-M. mothers. liroth-->r». Mid "listers reachi-.l Ihiir arms WM'OUirh the enrriage *i-imlows I,i Itold f.n- a nioiii, nt a small member 'A Ihr hunily aliom they had not ceou, prohnltly. for n couple ol' years. F»cw irere held up lo he kiss'-il. anil tliflr<> w*n- lears from women. They wm\> Ml poor people, ven poor the'x lnrtkwl, ill ill-assorteij, elol'he.s.

'J'he wrx nehnol isalioui im,i miles M>d « hftlf fri-ui the Eexin post ( ,f. lico. Th* toinl amount of gvuun.l niL*Qh*l to the In.itilulion is\litf acres "f flr«t-ela»F« innrl. .some of tin- flnesi li«wj in Mm district. Th„ P „ sl ' ,„• , j,,, •rertion of the various hnilding,, was f-U-Ooa 1,, the main block is the large assembly- m ,.iii t « liii-li for Ibe prmtnt ix-ill he umt| ** »-da,v school) !*« lodr dining-room, llu- 'reading, room, slwping rooms, bath and draawiif" ro.mis, hospital waul, with nvrny- appartments and kitchen. IV, ta»h«l (rinn the main bloek are the nianager'.s dwellings, the laundry,the flatrv. tli« farm iivm-sn-r's house, I lie ''cott« H » home,"- cowshed, and'otli-. "*■ f n 'ront of tlm xx hole is .a Ix-an-Uful pro«t e ,mi playground, ' about four ucrm in exieut. Verv complete '.trraiigenients have |, lvn niade for lire peevsofioii pui'pi.s.'t.