| Description | The bundle is subdivided into sections as follows:
- 'Children's Act, 1932' containing a typed copy of particulars included in a schedule submitted to the Home Office by the Middlemore Homes under the Children and Young Persons Act and letter from the Home Office acknowledging receipt of the schedule. 08 September 1936 - 10 September 1936
- 'Fairbridge Farm Schools' containing correspondence between Mr. Robert Plenderleith and representatives of the Fairbridge Farms Schools Incorporated, including Gordon Green, Secretary of the organisation. The correspondence concerns the care and emigration of individual [named] children through the Middlemore Homes and Fairbridge Farm Schools. Some correspondence with other parties concerning individual children is also included. 07 January 1936 - 04 January 1937
- [not separately labelled] correspondence between Mr. Robert Plenderleith and Mrs. Ellen Ray, Lady Superintendent of the Canadian Middlemore Home 'Fairview', Halifax, and with Mr. Eldon Ray (son of Mrs. Ellen Ray). The correspondence concerns the management of the Canadian Home and related financial matters. A list of individual children under supervision of the Canadian Home in 1936 is included, also a list of children in Canada for whom savings are held in trust by the home. 08 January 1936 - 14 December 1936 |