CHARITABLE AID REFORM.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16428, 23 January 1919, Page 8

CHARITABLE AID REFORM.

. -♦ ; — , MEETING of committee. a meeting of the committee of the Charitable Aid Reform Association was held last night, presided over by Mr H.. Jutsum. . „ . .„i The chairman made reference to alleged scandals in connexion With pauper funerals. The local Hospital and Charitable Aid Board had, lie said, remedied the most objectiouable feature in connexion therewith, lar Boards • m other centres had not d °A° motion was carried that representations bo made to the Minister, ofinteinal Affairs regarding. the objectionable nature of pauper funerals in certain centres, and that he ho asked draw the attention of Charitable Aid Boards-to the matter. . The chairman strongly criticised the action of the Defence Department in taking over the Chalmers Ward as an orthopaidic hospital. Mr J. Wilson moved, and • Mrs Mathesori seconded:"That this meetin" views with alarm the • action or the Defence Department in- commandeering the Chalmers Ward and similar institutions. Ia opinion the Department have had ample time to make provision for the treatment or soldiers without depriving the civil population of special bequests, and should not fasten its responsibility on the shoulders of local bodies." The motion was unanimously carReferring to the question of housing, the chairman said that he ha,d seen a small "grouped" settlement in Christchurch which struck him as a | good example of what could be done in this direction. The buildings were all grouped on a certain area, with a view to convenience and economy for the dwellers therein, Messrs Jamieson and Hurst Seager, who had viewed the settlement, had expressed favourable opinions of it, and the last-men-tioned had recommended that the matter be brought under tho notice of local bodies with a view to competitive drawings being invited. Ho had also recommended that a delegate be appointed from the Association to the Town-Planning Association. It was decided that the chairman should represent the Association on the Town-Planning Association.