[4] The Industrial Schools legislation enabled authorities to accommodate, detain and provide training for children under the age of 16 years who were deemed not to be in the control of their parents, in particular those associated with prostitution.
[5] In cases of return to families, police checks were conducted in advance to ensure that the child was being sent into a suitable situation.
[1] Girls were tasked with repairing stockings, clothing and linen and also bed ticks, bolster cases and sheets.
[1] The more junior girls, aged between 10 and 14, sewed for two hours daily, and the senior girls, over the age of 14, spent three hours daily doing needlework and completing the clothing items expected of the school by the Government.
[1] They had free time on the beach and had community outings to Ash Island and other places around the Hunter.
[1] Crowding and an inability to completely segregate both the different age groups and ill inmates within the Industrial School, added to the problems faced by the superintendent as prior to this the building had been used for storage and administration.