Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces Thursday 19th March 1925

Under the Act the Court of Wards deparment has the power to take over the management of any estate whether the proprietor of it so wishes or not if the amount of debt reaches a limit interest of which is one-third of the net income. [...] Looking at the report of the Court of Wards for 1923 I find that large amounts have been spent every year on the management and on the edcation of the wards but if we look to the estates and to the wards we find that it is no use for the department to spend so much amount over them; when their education did not reach the point when they could manage their estates or do good to the public or [...] 345 from the standpoint of the wards and from the standpoint of the mangers of the Court of Wards. [...] But there is one thing that occurs to my mind and it is a doubt about one point which I expected to be cleared by the speech of the honourable member in charge of the Court of Wards but was not and I'take the liberty of expressing it before the House in the hope that the honourable member in charge of the Court of Wards will kindly take a note of it I refer to the remarks that were made by the [...] When a estate is aken under the Court of Wards it becomethe duty of the Court of Wards to look after the education of the ward.