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carled no staff. One's first impres- sion of the boys was of their health and their sensible dress of shorts SIR and cricket shirts. Conduct earned for them the right to wear blue instead of other colours, and the jacqulallion of that blue was as Blackpool, June 20. much coveted as the Oxford or Cam- The rare collection of maritime The magistrates' conference which bridge variety. The houses had prints and pictures, running to
thousands has been sitting here to-day spent their housemasters and their sec-many
of pictures, H. their time in discussion of a num- tions, each led by one of the boys. belonging to Mr. A. G.
of important subjects-the, Dr. Methven described the long Macpherson, which was in dan nature of the industrial and re-day's occupations, from 6.40 a.m. der at one time of passing out of formatory schools and the Borstal to 8.30.. It was a day designed to the country, has been bought by institution, and their great success keep them fully occupied, for the an anonymous donor for the na- in the improvement of character, chief failure of these days was tion, Admiral Sir George Hope with one comparatively light in that they could not apply them-made this announcement in Lon- terjection upon the subject of Sun-selves to humdrum jobs. The most don at the annual meeting of the Society for Nautical Research. day games which are played at their teachers could do was to teach The collection, he said, would Borstal, although the ostensibly them to work. He was very glad to more civilised communities of towns say that now they were allowed to altimately be placed in the Na- tional Naval and Nautical are not allowed so to indulge, re-play games on Saturdays and Sun-Museum to be established at
days. ports the "Manchester Guardian."
There used to be nothing Queen's House, Greenwich, The first paper of the day was for them to do on Sundays but mope
"In the Macpherson collection given by Dr. A. H. Norris, the Chief about.
the nation has acquired not only Inspector of Home Office Schools,
In Borstal there were no more an altogether unique record of its upon their work and results. He punishments of bread and water or sea history in engravings, books, recalled that while Queen Victoria solitary confinement, and he bellev and atlases, but also a collection was on the throne 600 boys undered it was 15 years since a boy was of paintings, which range from 16 years of age were waiting, birented. The "strong colla" were the early sixteenth to the Inte transportation Botany Bay, only used to show the young offend-nineteenth century and form the and Parkhurst Prison was built er what used to happen to him. most representative collection of to hold them. Conditions had By depriving bays of privileges sen pictures in existence." changed. It was the successors of they now got all the effect they Mr. Macpherson, said Sir Mary Carpenter who now governed,
There was growing up a George, had accepted the valua-
of
desired.
the Home Office schools, and sought certain tradition, and the teda them-tion of his collection at £120,000, for still better methods of handling selves provided them with all the and had generously agreed to give authority they needed They hoped the British people an opportunity
the children who came to them.
It was the policy of the Home Office to encourage the individuality of schools, and on the whole the system worked well. The first class
achool, known
to get to a time when the traditions of purchasing it for three-quar of Borsta! would be at least equal ters of that amount. The appeal to those of Eton or Harrow. For brought to their assistance an experienced man of business, and six months last winter twenty lads he arranged on their behalf with
technical as the industrial attended
cinsaca in Mr. Macpherson a six months' school, was for those of school age Rochester unaccompanied, in or-option on the immediate payment who had really bean neglected and dinary dress, and not one single te- of £25,000. The same gentleman were not vicious or bad; they were port of misconduct was made. The paid over the $25,000, and the a kind of residential elementary head master of the technical school agreement was signed. There school. The reformatory schools reported that their conduct and in-was a very gratifying response to were for those above school age dustry left nothing to be desired who had been found lying or steal and that they worked harder than ing repeatedly. The Act did permit any other pupils. This year they magistrates to send girls and boys hoped to send forty. of twelve or thirteen to a reforma- tory, but he begged them to send children of that age to the indus- trial schools. (Applause.) There was a very silly clause in the Act which prevented magistrates from sending young boys to the industrial schools in certain cases. Sometimes that clause was successfully evaded, but where it was not he begged them, if they had to commit a boy of that age, to ask the Home Secret- ary to exercise his privilege of Bending the offender to the junior
school.
SUNDAY GAMES DEFENDED.
were
Ho out
A Rochdale delegate expressed great concern over the playing of games on Sunday, and quoted Scrip- ture to show its wickedness. A woman magistrate from Liverpool took him up with spirit amid loud cheers, and the doctor rapidly put his proposition: There 369
lads together. young could not Rend them for walks in
. twos threes. Either they must play games or be shut up. Opportunities for evil in such eircumstances were im- Would their conversation. be always decent? In what was done he had the approval of the Bishop, the Dean, and the Chapter of Rochester. (Applause.)
mense.
the appeal from all parts, and by the date of the expiration of the option ageement the total avail- able amounted, with the original deposit, to nearly £30,000. An anonymous gentleman then came forward with an offer to contri.. bute £10 for every additional £100 raised.
The same donor who
found the deposit decided to com- Plete the purchase of the whale collection.
Nucleus of Endowment Fund;. The anonymous gentleman. I who had offered to increase by 10 and per cent any further funds forthcoming had generously given £6,000 as the nucleus of an endowment fund, which would enable the .trustees of the Muscum to make the collection TRUSTING THE CHILDREN.
more accessible for the use of It was only fifty years ago that
students and the public at large. an educational authority built a
Another gentleman had subscríb truant school containing twenty
ed £1,000 for the same object. cells. Now those were turned into The chief guest at the luncheon Now that the collection had bedrooms, bathrooms, sports stores. given by the Corporation of Black heen saved for the nation, it was The convict uniform, the lock and pool was Lieutenant Colonel Sirhed others would add to it by key were gone. They had come to Vivian Henderson, M.P., Under ifty of paintings, prints, and The conclusion that a good school Secretary for the Home Office, who models; or contribute to the en- room education was essential to said that within the last thirty dowment fund. It was hoped everyone of the children. Nothing years we had come to regard crime at an early date to display in cen- produced such good discipline of in a quite different way. (Ap-london some part at least of mind. Even in the reformatory plause.) Perhaps the most import-the riches now acquired; where schools they had found that a elmi ant part of the Children Act of lihey might be viewed by the lar training, though more in 1908 was
the establishment of public.
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the nature of continued education. Children's Courts. He was sorry to
Sir George Hope also mention- was the best thing. But the chil- say there were still some places that the trustees had received dren's spare time must not be fully where euch courts did not exist. through the kindness of Mr. 00000 organised that they never learned There were still some people who Cook's sister, eight relics of the Baron, a descendant of Captain' to organise it the nselyes. The regarded them as a kind of unneces- great explorer, including a pair schools did trust children to-day. Bary sentiment, and who thought of candlesticks and other articles At a holiday camp, for instance, the the only way to impress children of silver, a snuffbox, a pair of boys were let out from two until was by fear, There might be some dice boxes and dice, and a set of eight with pocket money. It was with a natural tendency to do Ivory chessmen. Mr. Baron in- only by such tests that boys could wrong, but hundreds and hundreds tended to bequeath to be fitted for civilian Efe. Childen went wrong simply and solely be Museum other relics of Captain were allowed home on seven or cause they were in the wrong sur-Cook, including furniture, china, eight days' leave. One of the most roundings or suffered through fund plate. successful features of the schools wrong. guidance. The Criminal was that they did place boys and girls in work almost without excep- tion, and that employers came back
to them for more.
[
From the
the
Justice Act of 1925 made, the arnt the meeting, it is understood Although it was not disclosed rangement timt areas could com-that the nurchaser of the collec bine for the use of a Probation tion for the nation is Sir James Officer where there was not suffi- Caird, who had expressed to tho He had Intely seen a school for ministrative countries 86 had pro-anonymous
elent work for two. Out of 60 ad-society a strong desire to remain girls; but not a certified school, induced combination schemes. It was of the collection is stated to be The present value which the girls wore striped print a matter of great personal regret over £138,000. frocks, white cotton stockings, with him that Lancashire was not nual resort it was inferred that n- heavy boots, white caps, and a' plaid shawl. They were known to one of them. the young men of the village rescue
Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, who cases, and remarks were made about professed himself "very undecided" them every time they were seen. about the medical aspects of delin- It lowered the self-respect of a girl quency, said he did not believe that every time she wore that costume. inclined to evil. The delinquent there were people temperamentally were put од probation; but was more likely a person who found he could not believe that temptation eo great and whose self- the courts who had pat them control was so diminished that he on probation knew to what sort of did wrong. thing they had sent them. It was,
In
that school
Alfteen
girls
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has
Also
it was Sir James Caird who pro vided the deposit of £25,000 to secure the option of the pur- chase. baronets in the New-Year Hon- Sir James, who was one of the
£65.000 towards the restoration ours.
contributedo of H.M.S. "Victory" and £15.000 towards the restoration of the "Inlacable.", The report added: "This generous donor has thus, în By the Mental Deficiency Act of short space of time. given he concluded, quite necessary that 1913 it was the legal duty of an ad- 100,000 niness to enable the magistrates should satisfy them-ucational authority to notify to the people of Great Britain to pre selves that the home to which they local authority the names, numbers serve the monuments of their sent children was one where, the and defects of any children in their glorious sea heritage," Since children could live a self-respecting care. The local authority was re-thon the King had conferred the life and he trained to live in the quested to provide: accommodation honour of a harpnetcy on the world..
for these defectives, but the request benefactor, and the Council of the In answer to Sir Thomas was permissive only and, where Society fendered to Sir James its Rowbotham, who complained that schools existed, training ended at rateful thanks. Sir James, who the Stockport Industrial Schools the age of 16.
lives at Wimbledon, is a partner Only 17 out of 120 were empty while voluntary institu- authorities had provided this actor of many companies.
In a shipbuilding firm and a direc- tions were overflowing, Dr. Norris commodation. There were 50,000 of said that that was largely because these children, in the country and the modern pereen looking with a only 600 places for them. Apart kindly eye to child life would not from these there were eight other drag a child before a criminal court methods by which they could be
"AP
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the criminal courts were so handled psychological examination should
that there was no taint attaching to them
be urged in every case of juvenile delinquency, and every case of THE BORSTAL SYSTEM.. erime. It would be cheaper to do Dr. J. C. W Methven, govenor so in the long run,nghupart d of the Barstal Institution, said that
the system had, much altered ince The total number of willk now. the days of the first boys prison: helf by the New Zealand Its gate to day stood open; the Trust office is 5,881, representing an officers no longiz wore uniform and estimated total sum of £215,000,000."
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