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Midniaht Visitation to th . Parks.
fat every city, and in every clime there
pany citizens wbo,cilber!frcmi choice
a ncccsvTy, osme under, the official cate-
jury of "campers out," and/not. the. least
fifeult task oi census lakers fa that of
krins'ne there individuals 'wit-bin the count..
Milsnliy iIiOta; who steep- beneath the
iafe oi friendly .trees or shrubs in public
iai.1 nr reserves, because they- have mo
din pUe: to lay their heads,-. and those
alow address is "No. 10 -Boiler,
.Vnitb Wharf, Melbourne," arc not
uajjoiu i '» parade their poverty oi:
(fanililimi in the world,- and the
u4 of (he posic of police ' .who,.l at-
aidnight last night, en Ilieri . forth to track-
is many of thorn wanderers ats possible to
to lairs was not an easy one. Yob the
ink irrn. cheerfully undertaken and most
ikoioughly accomplished. Every - park,
ncry open shed or usually . unoccupied,
hfldrag. every reserve, ca-en itlic- xcccbms.
si irirchouscs and t.be slmnn, were combed
tilt a completenem that only those ac.
ipniniol with the hauniu and habrts of Ihe
uwki world i.-nnld iiuhiovc.-and.if -the rowilt
felwed one thing more clearly tlntn an-
nflicr it was that tbo nmnber of Melbourne
i;.-ueat- w ho are hianckss and derelict is
utueiflhingly small. It' would probably be
fe toaay .thai oo oilier city in .-the. world
ilb a-'popiilatioii anproicimotang' to. that
"fMcHfoiirne IcK audi, a roinntc proportion
f tumsteK ciliru'ds. .As tho.policc aiarclied
itis - fa rt Ivccarue -more ami. more evident.
Uflusns Bashed into' posy, nooks, failcd'to'
n-veal uuy (iconpfls, cxcctfi; rpiitc occasion-
illy.' and (ho enumcratore-tvcro not. «>rry
f vjf . ."" ' v
The ui-k of i nd norm; IJie wayfarers To
fslMn.ihn rctiuircd 'ndbntkitioit neccwd-
tfied the exen.-ise of so mndi tncl;, pirsus-
lion nod i.'nic that had tlic nnnibcr - of
nrt and wlmrf .dwellers' been as Urge as
bid beeu exported, the work eonr.d scaa-cciy
hire beto completed hi time. ' There were
Kme amiifiug.iiidJiIcnls iii Xl«-.«arch', but
ii'ltc nvun it'-ivwi.a sordid bifeipce)-.'. "
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