AN UNUSUAL CASE.
By Telegraph—Press Association
CHRISTCHURCH, September 25. An unusual case was considered by the Charitable Aid Board to-day. A family of six children had been committed by the Magistrate under the Industrial Schools Act, and an order was made for their maintenance by the Board until the children were 15 years old. The Board would have to pay altogether £650 at the rate of £2 5s per week. The father of the children was earning 7s per day, and the mother has a private income of £2O per year. The Board had protested against the order, and had applied for a rehearing. The matter being thus sub judice could not be openly discussed, but some steps will have to be taken in the r.ear future to prevent this sort of thing. It seemed that any man might neglect his children and have them thrown on the Board. In the caso referred to no order was made on the children's The cost of the maintenance children now amounted to as much as out-door relief.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8544, 26 September 1907, Page 7
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175AN UNUSUAL CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8544, 26 September 1907, Page 7
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