Lyttelton Orphanage.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1708, 14 May 1886, Page 4

Lyttelton Orphanage.

A NICE STATE OP THINGS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Chbistohubch, Thursday.

At a meeting of the -.Charitable' Aid Board to-day a report was presanted from the Orphanage Committee, enclosing another from the newly-appointed master, who says : -" I was surprised to find on taking up ray duties at the Orphanage that the children had been grossly neglected m many respects, particularly the girls, who, as regards clothing, were m a state, bordering closely on destitution, while the hair-dressing apparatus for ninety-six children, consisted of half an old dressing comb. As to food, I found the dinners were fairly good, but the milk given for breakfast and tea had been so diluted with water that it would not make i good drink for. a thirsty child, and much less an article of diet. I found the fleors of the dormitories clean, but the blankets belone piug to each bed without exception were dirty, and many of them filthy, but all folded with the greatest care and neatness." In consequence of the above reports from the Master, as well as personal inspection, the Committee has taken the necessary steps to have the institution and its inmates placed m a thoroughly efficient state. Samples of the blankets and clothes were produced at the meeting, and three members of the Board who had visited the Orphanage confirmed the report. , ;