DR. BARNARDO’S HOMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1921, Page 7

DR. BARNARDO’S HOMES.

During the coming month, Mrs. Dockrill and a band of voluntary lady collectors will make the annual house to house collection in New Plymouth© in aid of Dr. Barnarclo’s Homes. The work which the Homes have carried on for over 54 years is so well-known, and understood all the world over, that the ladies who have volunteered their services, are assured of a sympathetic and courteous reception and a willing response. It is to be hoped that the citizens of New Plymouth will also give with theii customary liberality. The Homes are in urgent need of the assistance of every man and woman who care for sick and friendless children. They began this year handicapped by a deficit from 1919 of £22,337. The outlay on food, house-keeping, and clothing in 1913 was £36,700, in 1919 the high prices resulted in these items posting the Homes £9'5,000. With a family of over 7,340 boys and girls in their case, and the almost ‘certain prospect of abnormal distress and suffering in the Old Country, entailing increased demands upon their resources, the Homes never had a stronger claim upon the generous support of the public. Innumerable public men have testified to the efficiency of tins ChildRescue Agency, and the fact, that m 53 years they rescued and trained over 88 000 boys and girls at the cost of a sum which would have been spent in less than one day on the Great War, shows that the Homes are also econpmicallv run. The Bishop of Chelmsford said recently:-“The work alone in Di Barnardo’s Homes is one of. the. finest I efforts to build «P fine men and women 1 have ever seen, or concerning which I have ever read. The children are really in homes-not merely atoms in an institution.”