TE ORANGA HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 94, 9 April 1908, Page 4

TE ORANGA HOME.

LWdJdIsMUXEKS IiLTOIM'

Per Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday

XUe report of Mr. Mishop. S.M.. 'the Commissioner appointed to inquire into certain matters connected with TV Orauga liirls' Home, hi- been received.

The Commissioner states that, unuig to lack of sufficient and suitable ac.'«nir modatiun, the girl, have been iiealt with in two ckissw. the Ik-Hit girls be in; put in the tir~t class 4ml the iron 1>! some girls in the second. The dilli--1 Ities of management under the prent system are almost ovcrpow .Tim:. id must otter st/iin the patience and mper of the attendants to the breaking point. The inmates consist ~f girls of all ages, many of them having b-en hardened and corrupted by indulgence in all forms of vice. The additions about to be made to the Home will improve the whol,. Mstem and enable the Jndv manager to so deal by wav of ,-lassilication with certain girls as to do away entirely with a great deal of the punishment that she feels called upon at present to inflict to ensure proper diseip

The Commissioner linds fault with the manager for the way in which she kept the register of punishment* ami expresses himself opposed to the „.,. of a_ strap on young women. Tlie assertion that it would bo impossible to run the institution at all if corporal punishment were abolished he regards „, „ .p----nous admission of weakness. Ife thinks corporal punishment should be entirely abolished at Te Oranga, but if the Department is not prepared to go that length then it should be ~sc,f„„lv on receipt of authority from the Den-ire-ment, and under medical approval He comments i„ term, of approval on the staff and their relation, Iwith, the manager, and concludes: "I can im- '»?**»*> *™™ than Z I™*, 0 tl,es<l ?"""* Pe°P'<tbn ?!£" °/ deten£i.i u W ' TO,Id ,)o more to help

-re., tt ~ Dnnedin, Wednesday 11 aS h,ms(, 'f tart taTWr 1 • tocorpora ' i , " nis "- niissionert report, he , a ; (i nr ' V omtho food and ph.v,i™i\. x ,rrt<f Flu Were -^ 30,Ut,,|v "Warranted. M men Zl'" W8 ? , " i0,,! ™»^