Miners’ National Orphanage

The project for the establishment of a Miners’ National Orphanage is still progressing favourably.

I understand that a concert will shortly be held at Kilnhurst in furtherance of the institution, and that a meeting having the same object in view is to be held at Denaby. There is no doubt whatever about the utility of the institution. The miners themselves are beginning to look at the matter with a favourable eye.

The principle of self-help contained in the idea is not distasteful to the miner, who distrusts everything done for him by outsiders, thinking that in the end he will have to pay the piper. In this scheme the miners will have the management of the orphanage in their own hands and, that being so, there cannot be any reason why they should not pay their halfpenny or penny weekly, and set the institution on a firm footing at once.