18 APRIL 1931, Page 17

A Hundred Years Ago

A vessel has been fitted up at Chatham, for the reception of four hundred boys not exceeding fifteen years of age, who, under the old system, would have been sent out of the country. They aro taught trades, and receive a suitable education, and means are adopted for securing employment to them whcn. discharged. The Government act oil the principle of the Maotlitlon where in order to qualify a woman for the charity, she must, in the first place, be a vagabond.

When a boy is found to be then ho is to be cared for and educated ; but when any plano.. dueating the non-thieving part af the poor is proposed, Government have no time, and Parliament no ears.