Charitable Aid Conference.

Manawatu Herald, 23 October 1897, Page 3

Charitable Aid Conference.

The above Conference has carried the following resolutions : —

That the Government be informed that it is the wish of the Conference that farms and industrial establishments should be formed, and that the Government should assist therein by grants of land.

" That this Conference partly approves of the founding of an inebriates' home.

That representations should be made to the Government that there should be some reciprocity between the colonies in bringing back deserters, and some means devised of punishing deserters in whatever part of the colony they might be found, and that the existing law relating to the liability of fathers to keep their illegitimate children be amended.

That all separate institutions, as defined by the Act, should be abolished.

That in the opinion of this Con* ferenoe the members of hospital and charitable aid boards should be elected for three years.

That the present Hospitals and Charitable Aid Acts be amended so as to prevent persons of their own account going out of one. district into another, with the object of entering another hospital, and thereby becoming a charge on the district they have left.

That section 74 of the Act be amended respecting the proviso for the six months' continuity of residence."

That it be a recommendation to the Government to amend thu Aot imposing duties on legaoies left by will to charitable institutions.

The report of the committee set up to consider the question of out* door relief was considered, and after a lengthy discussion the report was adopted, with the addition of a clause, " That it would be advantageous to limit the expenditure on outdoor relief if there were more cooperation existing between charity organisations and voluntary agencies with charitable aid boardß in order to check overlapping of the relief." This concluded the business.