The Maryport Advertiser November 3rd 1882 Whitehaven Board of Guardians

Whitehaven Board of Guardians

At the usual meeting of this Board yesterday, the Clerk  stated that a man named BELL, a barber at Cleator Moor, had been brought before  the magistrates and convicted of ill treating an apprentice who had formerly  been in the Workhouse. Mr. MUSGRAVE said the boy had no protector by the Board of  Guardians. He suggested that the matter be considered by the Guardians for the  parish of Cleator as whether to  it was desirable or not to cancel the  indentures of the boy. As to the sureties taken in £10 for the man not abusing  the boy again, there were a hundred things that might be done in which the boy  would be unable to bring any evidence. Mr. SMITH of Egremont seconded the motion. Mr. KIRKCONEL said that so far as the Cleator Guardians were  concerned, they were of an opinion that the indentures ought to have been  cancelled. What had come out in the local papers was only a tithe in comparison  to what the boy had suffered. The motion was agreed to. Mr. MUSGRAVE proposed that a Committee be appointed consisting  of Rev. Canon DALTON Rev. W. IVES Rev. J. O. BURCHALL Mr. HODGSON Mr. J. C. BROWN Members of the School Attendance Committee: Mr. REED Mr. A. BEDFORD Mr. J. TYSON Mr. Joseph PORTER Mr. J. MUSGRAVE, to take into consideration the duties of the  school at tendance and inquiry officers. The motion was carried; Mr. H. A.  FLETCHER being substituted on the committee for Mr. J. C. BROWN. _________________________

 

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