RELIEF FOR ABLE-BODIED MEN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 547, 30 June 1909, Page 4

RELIEF FOR ABLE-BODIED MEN.

, RECORD NUMBER OP CASES. BUT NOT ALL DESTITUTE ; A record; number of. relief • eases. 1 Were . dealt with 'during .the' past'week' by.'the' officers of ;'he; '{Wellington Bcriovblent< Institution. • .The' secretary, reported'.to': theßoard of.Trustees ' yesterday as follows:—' ' V 'Tourtocn able-bodied men applied for relief ~DiD»'-lirenien; two biishroen, on© -irialo nurse, ;one, one v'wharf labourer. ' /Nearly, all the firemen had wives'and families' m . tho ' Old .Country, for whoso, support they impoverished -themselves or. widowed ■ :inuthers in England, . tho£ :woro tho' • so ri s t of - them had either been ' ; robbedv,.°f,-their. clothes, : or'; had leifc them -on J, ship,;.which/had ! unfortunately gone off with •• thera.; -Everyone had-lost or mislaid his dischargo., ;■ Six applicants gave thoroughly unsatisfactory accoUnts.'of.themselves,'arid 'two admitWd'hav-' their nip My. - Three wcre rsent'. ■ the intermediate ward; and- failed to -go i ■ one'. • was.sent to.thei.Lahour .Bureau, and failed to return; five;had their necessities/entirely sat- ' usfied by.two.inoals.'andibed atithe.'Arrav H6me, and ..failed yto .'return ;riox't:;,day,va§ i tofd -to ido for further inq-uiryV'and' relief| ;v ,.6ne,ibr6iight' ;back his order to ; th© intermediate ward, two uays after date, vwith' the envelope opened; and four.went : to ;the intermediate/ward." • ' - Members.'of the ,with-sdme disr the thanklesitaess of : the applicants.; It. may bo that I .asked them ['too* many; questions,, said' tho secretary,- when a' trustee 7 remarked ; that several .'of the destitute men had not bothered .to call again.: The board agreed that; the -majority/ of these- lien were lnot. suffering . from .real; want; - ...