Sir-May I touch upon several points raised in this discussion? First, ° I consider there should be adequate provision of finance and to leave this to private organisations-however well-in-tentioned-is to invite the abuses pointed out by your original contributor. The present structure is merely a continuation of the out-moded Victorian conception of well-doing. Why should the children have to rely upon the "charity" of committees of private persons. How little are the needs of youngsters understood by middle-aged and elderly committee folk who live in the world of the past and do not realise that the children, unlike themselves, judge on existing standards. Is it appreciated for instance that the spotlessly clean buildings and well-kept gardens too often represent hours of drudgery for the youngsters who would normally be playing with their fellows at school or home? Or that in many (but not all) cases the visit of an "old boy" to the Home is not a cause for self-congratula-tion as it represents the poverty of institution life in that he was unable to make normal contacts and friends, and consequently the Home is the only place
he can look to that gives any connection with his boyhood. Incidentally, I am an "old boy."
M.
YOUNG
(Waimate).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 5
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