AN EXPLANATION WANTED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 72, 13 April 1901, Page 2

AN EXPLANATION WANTED.

I The following we quote fiom the Stratford PosS appears to dim ind an i-xpla-nation" This mcrcinj?," fays our | contemporary of Tiiui'slay, "Mr W. [Symes, M.H.R., brought under our |no ice a very dis raising case, nacooly, that of a pqan n;.med Anderson, who is lyiflg ill, very ill, at bis wife's little placa oil the Eist Road. Is uppeatn that about twelve rooaths agn Aadersin went into thi New Plymouth Hospital, and afroo being th«te for some months was sent on to Rofcorua. He remained there f>r a en iderable time, but eventually turned t) Stratford, his case be.'ng regarded as incurable. Some £2O pxpanses woro incurred Rata- u*, and a I similar ameunt at the New Plymouth If The poor fe'low is absolutely without mean?, and when the Hon.

Hall-Jones was m Sratford last December Anderson waited upon him and explained his position, with tho remit that the Minister pympathuei and promised to wipe off the mount incurred at Rotorua, a promise that nag faithfully k.-pt. Ahout th« same ti«,e Mr, Symcs wrote to the Hospitil and Charitable Aid Board and explained Anderson's circums'anees, but up te the present he has had no ankoowleigpment of his letter. What t.h. Board is doing, however, ig to worry A?}defson sbjn payment of th? amount incurred while he waa in the

hospiti*, an) yesterday ha received a latter from Messrs. Gove't and Co stating that by irstrnctions of the Boaid extreme steps would betaken to enforce payment. We feel convinced that the Ikard ordered that leb'er 11 bs sent undq- 1 a misapprehension of the true facta of the case. It is absolut ly impassible fqr Anderson to comply with tta demand made upon him. IJh is a physical wreak, wiistsd almrs 1 ; to a shadow, and utterly unable to earn a penny piece. The efforts of h''s wife and family have guffi ed to keep th home together, but not. to sfiord Anderson the attention and nourish ment he should receive in what, it is greatly ta be feared, is his laßt illness.

The derails furnished to us, if correct, and we thoroughly bplieve they are, nrs deplorable, and are such as should enlist the sympathy of the 4iparted individual, let alone a Charitable Aid Board. Our object in drawing attention to tkis case is to aal: the local representatives of the Brard to make some inquiry iato th matter, and to hasten to give the relit-1 demanded in the intercuts of common humanity; also to cause the oesca'ion , of a fruitless persecution which the 1 Board is, uiikioAjngiy we believe, in- 5■ flictjnj upon apear, ilpf.ncelass, and; dying man, .