New Zealand representatives at the great suffragette
demonstration at Hyde Park, London on July 23 - Dr Alice
Burn (wearing gown) and Lady Stout in front. - Otago
Witness, 14.9.1910.
A perusal of the fourth annual report of the Presbyterian
Social Service Association, as presented to the Dunedin
Presbytery, prompts reflections of a somewhat contradictory
character.
The need for the establishment of such an association, which
makes a specialty of succouring children of incapable or
negligent parents, affords melancholy evidence of the lack of
consciousness of the responsibilities of parenthood on the
part of a section of the adult population of the Dominion.
How large a section this unfortunately is may be estimated
when it is remembered that this Association is only one of
many similar organisations promoted by churches and
philanthropists to supplement the reformatory work carried on
by the State.
While the decline in proper parental responsibility and
exercise of restraint is thus sadly marked, it is at least a
hopeful sign of the times that the churches are increasingly
accepting the onus of control of the neglected children.
It is sufficient tribute to the efficiency of the activities
of the Presbyterian Social Service Association in Dunedin
that in the report upon the work of the Juvenile Court
submitted to Parliament the stipendiary magistrate dwelt upon
the fact that much of the success attending it was due to the
Association so ably superintended by the Rev. E. A. Axelsen.
• Brisbane: Mr Bruce, a member of Captain Scott's expedition,
arrived by the Prinz Waldemar. He has 19 Manchurian ponies
and 38 Siberian dogs. He says they intend to rest for two
months at Lyttelton until the Terra Nova arrives. McMurdo
Sound will be their base, but there will be another one 100
miles east.
The ship will not remain in the Antarctic, but will return to
New Zealand, going back to the Polar regions the following
summer. They expect to be absent about three years.
Questioned regarding the proposed Japanese expedition, Mr
Bruce said that 4000 had been subscribed towards the cost,
and that the Government had given the promoters of the
expedition an obsolete gun boat.
- ODT, 9.9.1910
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