PAUPERISM IN AUCKLAND CITY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 260, 21 February 1877, Page 3

PAUPERISM IN AUCKLAND CITY.

The 3bty(b»r»nnh £*/>»>-•; thii3 retorts r»tt the Auckland » S W with reference to the- stigma of pauperism In last Saturday's issue, whilst e >eh ment'ng' ; n sotno vulgar and impertinent i ' mark. - * in a jottinal as remarkable for its literary ]>»»verty as tack of g'xid we had occasion to oiti attention to the pauperisation of the people of Auekttnd. which commenced on the withdrawal of the Impvnat troops, and has been going »>n ever Mnir.% As illustrating our argument, we •(»*<»ted from a Ministerial document, the tirst thing to hand, showing tiiv expenditure of brge sums of money on the roads t:i Auckland, and instituted a c >;tt; -rt in tlt».*f re«peet with Marrborottgh. which haft always paid for its ovrti i>>ad.->. Anothtr illustration of our theory eatuo hand in the shape of a Press Agency dated Auckland, Friday. from which it appears that I*»W persons are in receipt, ot pauper rciicf in Auckland *.'hy. To give Auckland Hie fient'tit of the doubt. we will call this and takintr the population of Auckland City rougfdy at which, by the war is eonsiderrtMy above the actual amount, we Hud that i[ per cont. of th« Auckland poopb are aefnal paupers. The population of I-ft'nheim is somewhere about I.l'♦>'>. and we have only three paupers, a p.-rcenl">g« of l»'h» only. Worked out, this sh.ovs ".hat if Blenheim hait the population we have estimated for Auckland City. »he e«»«M only show l>o real live paupers against "JoS in Auckland : yet the is angry he can- e we think and say that Auckland is being pauperised. The proof of the pudding is ht the eating, and there is a far heavier percentage of pauper pudding n>»w being eaten in Auckland than 'n l»tenheim. The cause of this pauperisation ts {he vrhoFesah> largest© which is bvi-d'ed up--tv t'; ;> people Uy the ♦ tovenimenf. Mid which they have Income sh accuse mn't 1 to, as afuvot to tooiv upon it as a right."