REAL BENEVOLENCE.
A Yorkshire philanthropist hits just seta very ii.ie example of real benevolence, which to our thinking quite puts Mi- Carnegie's benefaction in the shade, as a. pract.cal effort- in the right direction. He has purchased the entire slum a?-ea -of Ihe t >wu (Beverley) in which lie i.ves, und handed it over to the G.n-poxat.oa with a view to its being changed into a properlyappointed < t weiling-d istriet. The shanties and r.» merles are to be swept away, and connnodmus houses substitute-!, bu.lu mi the most approved hygienic prxiicij.les. An influential English paper, lee.u-diug tlie gift, says :—-'Tue example points to a species v»f p!idsutlir-*py which cannot la 1.,.', cue "-.raged '>’• t- '•» widely imitated.’
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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 6, 30 August 1901, Page 4
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