OUTDOOR RELIEF

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 50, 18 February 1908, Page 3

OUTDOOR RELIEF

A WAITAKA APPLICANT. I The Tarauaki Charitable Aid board i has taken the stand that it iII not give very liberal outdoor relict when the charitable aid recipient i- a tit person to 1"' admitted to the Old People s 11*• in* 1 , iiijrin;: tluvt th' lloiik' i- nuclei, ii ii lit*'- not provide a -heller for '-he | i |m'k .r. l->r t hat. rea-ou the liii.U.l li-tel'dav ,1-eided it < oulil ll"t illir,as,■'its allonauce oi tl per month 1., tl lo- P'*r mouth lor Alee the j 1 Greek." an indigent resident -i Waitara. ! Tlie re'pie-t «'as made by .Mr. T. ISuchi au.,n oil hi, behalf, and the latter statI ed that Alee Had l>een a resident of New Zealand for 87 or 88 years. He has led I an alixlemiou, and industrious lite, bu„ I hi- occupation has lieen a very precan- ' «,„- one. in his early days some time I \x-A* spent about the goldfiel'N of Otag> and Westland. after which he worked at whatever offered, finally following the cnllili" «f a fisherman. The old fellow In.- -aveil notliii)'-', and were it not fo , tin' a-si-tanee of neighbor* lie would be unable to live ti|i"n the Hoard - allowIt has l-een that he id,mild "o to the old People's Home, l.ut the old man ha- a decided aversion t-> that . The Isoiii'il. u hi* h hail tili matter on a similar oreasiou saw no M jN»r it* Uecj-ioii. ami <leuuc«l ■m'ttriftoihe ju'lirt 1 re»jiie-tiii:Jr them 10 , tl,;it the "1,1 man wa- n"t unduly | J,r/r}eeiefl: -it tiiO -ame time -tahnj! »tsi 1 to rfifive him a- an inmate I . ; thr <»M JVnple « ll'>me.