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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1321, 7 March 1883, Page 2

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ONITED PRESS ASSOCIATION | HON. T. DICK ON REFOMA- ;; :•[■•.! 'TORIES,-;I; Donedin, March 5. , : Another deputation on .the reformatory question waited on the Hon," T. Dick to-day., The Hon. ff.i Dick/ :in replying, pointed out'that in'the' Industrial Act which he had got passed last session, they had the power of classification, and he thought this would bo of great service. The Act was scarcely-in working .order; and its provisions' would require ' very careful sifting, As to the separation of the sexes, he had never heard, any complaint on that point incbMection with' the school at Cayersham,vand ! that had been established for fifteen years. 1 ' The children there were so well controlled; that, so far as he knew,, there had been no complaint iri co f nnectiofL ut ■witK r tHe' mixing-of'the boys arid' girls.'•Com-' plaints of that nature had been made in connection" with Zthe'' ! Auckland School years ago, but that was,\before, it was under the control of the Government. hi A ; much better arrangement had now been made in the shape of a boarding-out system, which ,tlie Government intended; extending, greatly. They proposed to board out the younger children as.-;fast' as,My! was, as fast as"tliey could "find." foster mothers'who would for themi