CHARITABLE AID

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1715, 21 November 1887, Page 3

CHARITABLE AID

Wo clip the following from the " South Canterbury Times " :— The following true story will serve to show the difficulties which beset the administration of charitable aid, Whilo it i 3 certainly instructive, it is not les3 cerlalaly amming, though the the joke may not be so keenly relished by the local bodiea as by the outside public It appears that some time ago a man In Waimate became an intolerable burden to the Charitable Aid Boa<d, and that body determined to rid itself of him. After somo negotiation the Board and the County Council contributed sufficient money to enable the " a>urdy beggar " to return to his native Cornwall, where be declared he had wealthy relations pining for his return. In dua course he Bailed for " England, home and beauty " at the board's expense. Arrived m Cornwall he repaired, not to his ancestral halls, but to the room m which the Board of Guardians of the Parish sat, and applied to them for aid. They heard his story, and declined to do' anything for him except give him a passage to New Zealand at;ain, and m a few days he was packed off again by the a. a. Coptic, and arrived here the other day very much the better for his olroumnavigatory trip. He is now engaged m once more wooing the favot of the Charitable Aid Board, with what success time wili show