AN ORPHANAGE TROUBLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12631, 19 October 1905, Page 8

AN ORPHANAGE TROUBLE

Per Press Association

CHRISTCHURCH October IS. At the Charitable Aid Board to-day a report was submitted by the institution's committee in regard to the recent inquiry made into the conduct of the matron of the Woolston orphanage. The report recommended —(1) That a letter >be cent to the Matron conveying the (Board's strong disapproval of certain expressions admitted by her to have 'been used to Catholic children, and forbidding any repetition of similar language. The clause was adopted by the Board. The report also stated that the committee was of opinion that the time had arrived for the management of the Orphanage to be reorganised with a view to placing the institution in charge of either a married couple or a younger omatron.

In the discussion which ensued two members expressed the opinion that the committee had gone beyond the order of reference, because- the Board decided at the last 'meeting that the charges, except that incoa'poirated in the first clause of the report, had not been proved. Amendments that the matron's services be- dispensed with aft-er various terms of notice were lost, and finally the report, consisting of the first clause only, was adopted.