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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 36, 3 September 1903, Page 31

The branch of Church work in this State (writes a West Australian correspondent of the ' Southern Cross ') lhat has, next to higher education, won the most conspicuous success, has been the establishment of homes for neglected children. There are three reformatories built and controlled by the Church, situated at Subiaco, Glenaalough, and Clontarf. The latest report of the Government superintendent of such institutions, shows that the Catholic Church has 190 children under her charge, the Anglican 126, and the Salvationists and the State school 65 each. It will be seen fiom these figures that the Catholic orphanages have the care of a far greater number of children than those of any other denominalion The figures- are from Government sources and are taken chiefly from the lecords and committals to the schools as neglected children by the magistrates. In addition to this there are a number in charge of the nuns or Brothers placed there at the request of persons who cannot provide home comforts for a family, as in theJ case of a widower, for instance. These cannot, strictly speaking, count as neglected children, and are probably not included in the Government returns. In the reports of periodical visits by inspectors, the Church establishments are invariably quoted as examples of good order and management.