TRAINING PAUPERS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9132, 29 April 1908, Page 5

TRAINING PAUPERS.

Per Press Association. Wellington, April 28. Miss Kirk made a report to-day to the Wellintgou and Wairarapa Charitable Aid Board "on investigations made throughout the district into the circumstances of people in receipt of assistance, and some of the cases are surprising. For example : A country married man, with four children in the family, is alleged to be extravagant, one girl getting rolled gold spectacles and a boy a bicycle costing £4 to deliver papers; rent paid, with rations. Recommendation that the rent be struck off.

A Wellington suburb woman, with three children, has a weekly income of £3 Bs. “This case,” remarks Miss Kirk, “is rather unusual, because in addition to the income mentioned the recipient is receiving £3 10s interest a quarter on a sum left by her husband, which will give the children £6O or £7O a year when they are , r of age. Recommendation that the grant he reduced from 10s to ss. A Wellington suburb house, in which the recipients live, is their own—worth £B3o—subject to a small mortgage. Recommendation that the grant of 10s a week should cease.