These rules included the ages of admission ( between 7 and 12 years old ), with boys being taught until the age of 14, and girls until the age of 15, and that the school was for orphans and necessitous children of warehousemen and clerks only.
12.
I am really afraid to speak on this subject, but I will do so nevertheless; for I think I shall be able, with advantage to the State, to plead the cause both of the poor against the rich and of the property-owners against the necessitous.
13.
Her educational programme included the abolition of school fees, the provision of food and shoes and stockings to necessitous children, the abolition of corporal punishment, smaller classes, and a larger expenditure on all things essential to the development of the child and the health of the teacher.
14.
The act made it a punishable offense for a husband to desert, willfully neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife in destitute or necessitous circumstances, or for a parent to fail in the same duty to his child less than 16 years of age.
15.
The proposal was advertised to warehousemen and clerks across the north-west of England; the men were asked for one guinea or more per year, which would pay for their child's education and well-being, should the father die and the family left " necessitous ".
16.
For about twenty-two years he maintained his family by establishing the South Lambeth Grammar School, and on his retirement from the head-mastership to Richmond in 1852 a representation of his necessitous condition was sent to Lord Palmerston, who obtained for him a civil list pension of ?0.
17.
In February, 1859, he issued a circular proposing " a scheme for a Board of Guardians for the relief of the necessitous foreign poor . " This scheme exhibited a great insight into the needs of the poor, as well as a comprehensive idea of the machinery necessary to relieve them.
18.
It is to be noted, however, that the Court of Appeals expressly based its opinion on the fact that the officers " were confronted by the need for a decision arising from the necessitous circumstances of the situation . " The position of the Government does not excuse us from evaluating the circumstances of the whole case.
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{{ Cquote | Legislatures in limiting freedom of contract between employee and employer by a minimum wage proceed on the assumption that employees, in the class receiving least pay, are not upon a full level of equality of choice with their employer and in their necessitous circumstances are prone to accept pretty much anything that is offered.
20.
When we remember that millions are being spent by the Ministry of Health and by Local Authorities on pure milk for necessitous expectant and nursing mothers, on Maternity Clinics to guard the health of mothers before and after childbirth, for the provision of skilled midwives, and on Infant Welfare Centres it is truly amazing that this monstrous campaign of birth control should be tolerated by the Home Secretary.
