AN INEQUITABLE JUDGMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 26 September 1907, Page 3

AN INEQUITABLE JUDGMENT.

Per Press Association. Christchurch, Last Xight. ■An unusual case was considered by tin Charitable Aid Board to-day. A family of six children has been committed by a Magistrate under the Industrial Schools Act, and an order was made for tlieir maintenance by the Board untij the children are fifteen years old. The Board would have to pay altogether £«.->». at the rate of £2 5- per Week. The lather <.f the children was earning 7s a day. and the mother li>- a private income uf £2O a year. I lie Board bad protected against the order. and hail applied for a rehearing. The matter, being thus sub judice, could n<n be openly discussed, but some step, have to be taken in the near future to prevent this sort of thing. It seemed that any m&B might neglect l)is children and have them thrown on the Board. In the case referred to no order was made on the children's father, and the cost of main tenance of the children now amounted to as much as outdoor relief.