BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 589, 18 August 1909, Page 7

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

)■ NOT A SINGLE SI'ARE BED.

/The Board of Trustees : o£ the-.' .Wellington .Benevolent Institutiqn'niet.yesterday,;there being present:—The 'chairman (Mr, John Smith), aud Messrs. : D. Robertson, H;,Cooler J.,Wakehum, R. W, Sbdrt, 4nd D. P.J.oasby. '■"■■, -~. The .master of the Ohiro Home (lh\ A, H. Truobridge) reported .'tliat/.tbcrei. were 83 male and 31 femple inmates in the main hDniei nn'd 13 inmates in receipt of casual relief in the Intermediate ward. He; stated, with regard to an upplioation whioh had been'received" from Mr. ; A. W.. Jl;]?., for tho admission of an old age.pensioner, /from the-Wairarapa.diß-triot, ;that there* was not a : single 'spare bed iu the homo now. Accommodation had even to be provided for two or threi) in the sittingroom. ■ Some discussion -followed with, regard 'to the geneffll question of relief An the Wairarapa, and it was pointod out 'that'the Solway Ifomo, controlled-by tbn North Wairarapa BeneTolent Institution; ■ had : only accommodation for ten inmates. It was a rigid rule at that, homo that once an inmate left of his own accord, ho could not'be readmitted, i Mr..Hogg's nominee had previously been an inmate, and had 1 left of his own accord.' ;>. ; . ■■.■■' ' • ■-.-. Mi, Loilsby, referring to' the' Carter Benevolent Homo af Cartertou, remarked that there must, be :ii mustantial accuiriulatioh of funds in that institution. .It'.was practically a close corporation, and the greatest difficulty had been experienced in obtaining admission. , It was decided that Mr. Hogg be written to,. advisiiiß that there was no necommodatibn at present in the Wellington Home, '/. .