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Marylebone Road, affording shelter for thirty girls. Another very important part of our work is the establishment of homes for children rescued from immoral surroundings under the Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act. Of these the Society has three—at Shipton-under-Wychwood; Cold Ash, near Newbury; and the Beckett Home, Meanwood, near Leeds, intended to meet the wants of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The latter was built specially for the Society through the energetic exertions of the Ripon Committee and the liberality of friends in Yorkshire. These, I should explain, are havens of safety for the young people, from which they cannot be removed by unworthy relatives until they are of an age to take care of themselves. To give an instance of the industrial side of our effort, at Standon, in Staffordshire, the Society, aided by a special donation of £2000, has established a Farming and Gardening Home for eighty boys, and this is certified as an Industrial School. This, by the way, is under the management of a body of Governors, including the Bishop of Lichfield and the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire. During the past twelve years it has trained over 350 boys in agricultural pursuits. The work here carried out is one of the most satisfactory departments of the Society's work, as it not only lays the foundation of a healthy and vigorous manhood, but enables the Society to send out