BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1980, 29 June 1880, Page 3

BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the committee of the above was held at 2 p.m. Present—His Worship the Mayor (in the chair), Messrs Mitchell, Ollivier, H. Thomson, Packer, Morton, Hargreaves, Pratt, J. A. Bird, and the Mayor of Sydenham. Accounts to the amount of £2l 9s 6£d, and £4 6s for cartage, were passed for payment. The amount at credit in the Bank was stated at £2OB 7s Bd, exclusive of accounts passed at the meeting and of those at last meeting not applied for. The Mayor reported that ho had received a number of donations since last advertisement. A donation of tweed, ninety yards, for making up children’s dresses, &0., had been received from the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, and also some blankets and flannels from Messrs J. Ballantyne and Co. Mr Ollivier brought up the following report : The committee beg to report that they have relieved 170 cases by the distribution of coals, potatoes, blankets, flannels, calico, and sundry other articles, such as sago, oatmeal, and miscellaneous clothing, besides food, which has been very freely administered. They have gratefully to recognise the liberality of Mr Eosewarno, who has hitherto supplied gratuitously all the meat required for the kitchen. They have further to report that they have distributed 120 bags of coal, averaging Ifowt., 65 bags of potatoes, about IJ-cwt., 96 pairs of blankets, 500 yards of flannel, and 132 yards of calico. The committee have exhausted their stock of blankets, and the flannel is nearly all expended. They have to acknowledge a liberal donation from the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory of 90 yards of flannel shirting, and a donation of blankets and flannel from Messrs Ballantyne and Co. J. Ollivieb.

June 28th, 1880. The report was received and adopted, and Mr Ollivier thanked for his services in the matter.

The question of the appointment of a visiting officer was discussed, and on the motion of Mr Ollivier postponed until next meeting. On the motion of Mr Ollivier, it was resolved—“ That twenty-five pairs of blankets and one piece of flannel be purchased.” In reply to Mr Packer, Mr Ollivier said that there had been about twenty-five cases of application for relief during the past week. The Mayor said that he had been informed that the Government had decided to give work to married men at 28s per week wet and dry, and 21s for single men wet and dry, firewood costing them per diem. In reply to Mr Packer, Mr Thomson said that they had not as a Charitable Aid Board stopped any part of relief in consequence of the establishment of this institution. He might say that whore there were men who could work for their wives and children they as a Board declined to give aid. The meeting then adjourned.