WELLINGTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Wellington. May 28,
The annual report of the Wellington Benevolent Trustees shows that the penditure during the year was £0741, divided ns follows ;—lndoor Relief, £1,403 ; Out-Door Relief, £‘1,337; total number of rations issued was 77,000 distributed amongst 012 persons. Orphans and deserted children boarded out, in the institution and with private families, numbered 55 at the beginning of the year, this number has since been reduced to 33. This gives a total of one person in every lifty-sfx of the population of the City receiving charitable aid ; for every person in receipt of indoor relief there are seven receiving ont-door relief.
The Trustees state that if a careful analysis were made of persons receiving ont-door relief it would be found that a considerable number bear the pauper stamp.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 May 1901, Page 3
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135WELLINGTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 May 1901, Page 3
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