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Rh That will give some idea of how the Society covers the length and breadth of the land. In the case of these homes, certified as Industrial Schools by the Home Office, there is to a certain extent institutionalism, as industries have to be taught and proper premises provided. Two of these Industrial Schools are for boys. There are farms attached where the lads learn the elements of agriculture, and are fitted for colonial life. In Canada there are receiving homes, one for girls at Niagara, which was carried out for a great number of years by Miss Rye, who has now transferred it to the Society. The other is at Sherbrook, in the Province of Quebec, managed by a responsible committee, with the Bishop as president. To these homes boys and girls are sent who have been rescued from bad surroundings, and who, it is feared, if kept in England, would return to those surroundings after their training under the Society is over. Mind! the Society recognises most thoroughly that there is work for all respectable and properly-trained boys and girls in the mother country. You see, it is in extreme cases that emigration is resorted to, so that the tie may be boldly cut between the children and their bad old surroundings and disreputable relations.”

“How do you work in co-operation with the Boards of Guardians?”

“Well, besides working in co-operation with the State by having some of its homes certified as