Canterbury Children's Aid Society. Mr. A. E. G. Rhodes, president; Miss Bessie Henderson, secretary; Mrs Robert Black, treasurer; Mesdames Bendely, Henderson, Field, Wells, Lees, Sister Marian, Misses Ross, Henderson, and Gordon, Rev. A. C. Hoggins and Rev. I. Sarginson, and Messrs J. O'Bryen Hoare, J. A. Blank, and H. G. Eh, M.H.R., committee. This society is the outcome of a public meeting held on the 12th of May, 1898, and was established on the 2nd of June in that year. Its objects are to secure a more stringent carrying out of the law dealing with children, the introduction of new legislation for the rescue of children from undesirable homes, the relief and care of actual cases of destitution, and the establishment of free kindergarten schools and creches. The society has been successful in its operations, and has a kindergarten with an average attendance of fifty children under five years.