DISTRESS IN WELLINGTON.
At a recent meeting of the Wellington City Couneil, the secretary of the Benevolent Institute stated that the amount of charitable aid afforded by the institute was increasing to a very large extent. When he took over the secretaryship the average expenditure was about £35 per month. In three months, after the crash in business came, it reached something like £9O per month, and now it was between £l2O and £l4O per month. Applicants turned up everywhere—their name was legion. There were cases, too, that could not be looked over —of people who had sold every stick of furniture they possessed, aud who had large families, and in many instances a sick wife. Amongst these were a number of really good mechanics, who in many cases had nothing to lie down upon, and to whom they had actually to supply clothing. No one had any idea of the distress which oxisted, especially at the Te Aro end of the town, but those who had been amongst it. _________
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1839, 14 January 1880, Page 2
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