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AID FOR ORPHANAGES
Mr. E.A. McTiernan (Attorney-General), speaking at Parramatta, said that £50,000 had been placed upon the Estimates in order that a due payment might be made by the State for each child succoured by the orphanages throughout the State, whether by being made an inmate of some orphanage, like that at Baulkham Hills, or by being boarded out. If it was right that in the latter case the guardian of the child should be reimbursed by the State, it was equally right that the sisters of the orphanages should be reimbursed by the State on similar lines for the care of the orphans they rescued from unfavourable and dangerous conditions, and placed safely on the road to honourable manhood. Whilst this was done, it was trusted that the spring of private charity now flowing to th
