THE TE ORANGA SCANDAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2135, 10 March 1908, Page 2

THE TE ORANGA SCANDAL.

ENQUIRY PROCEEDING. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 9. Tho enquiry into the management of the Te Oranga Home wa6 continued to-day. Dr. Meikle gave evidence that- = in September last he was called to the Home to attend Miss Howden, who was then an attendant. He found that she was suffering from influenza, and prescribed the usual treatment. On a second visit he found that .the patient’s temperature had risen , to 104, and that instructions as to dieting had not been followed. The matron, -who did not appear to appreciate the seriousness of tlie case, said that no member of the staff could be spared to do the .uursing, and .Miss Howden was removed to a private hospital. Other witnesses who volunteered evidence spoke in terms of the highest praise .of the conduct of the girls and the kindness of the matron and staff, and one witness said that ’.vhen felling and sawing trees the. girls were laughing and screaming, and apparently enjoying themselves. They always took their own time. Witness made a calculation, based on the number of trees felled aiid cut up, that during the eight years the institution has been open, each girl had on an average cut two barrow loads of. wood, and tho aggregate value of their labor oil the timber -was £6 ss.