CHARITABLE AID.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 109, 29 April 1908, Page 3

CHARITABLE AID.

UNDESERVING CASE'S. Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Nigiu. Miss Kirk made a report to-day to the Wellington and Wanarapa Charitable Aid Board on investigations made throughout the district into the cirtum stances of people ill receipt oi assi-t aner. Sonic «>i Hie cases are surprising. For example, in the case ui a married woman in the country v.im four children, tile lamih were 1 alleged to In- cxtraiagan;, one g'irl getting rolled gold spectacles, and a boy a bicvcie. costing C 4„ to deliver papers. Their rent was paid, with rations. The recommendation »a, that the rent l»struck off. hi a Wellington suburh, a woman with three children bus an income of X.I Ss- "This case," remarks "'iss Kirk, "is rather uuu-sual, becarne, in addition to the income nienlio ;ed, the recipient is receiving ti IDs interest a quarter on a sum left by lur '.uisIjaiul, which will give the children' CliO or C7<J a year when they are oi age. Ml- recuniii'e-nded ' hut Ibe grant lie n- • lu.-.ml irom in- m ~-. In a Wellington

il].'ll!U '•' .li'l li\i- i- tll'-ir ""11. .Ml'l i worth t-viii. -übj.-u 1.. .. -mall Him I gage. Miss Kirk recommended that Hi" grant of 10* a neck should cea-e. Another country revipient is a marri'-.i woman with three girls at work, her property free from ileht. ami receiving Id. a week. They have had 'ii'dbs oi Sigar and 1751b* of Hour iu tin." m .nth*, ami don't make their own br-ad. The inspector recoiniiicinl.il thai tl- ■ grant should cease. A Welliiiglun siburb reei|.ient with four ehildren kept 1.. .irders, and lias an inroine of C 7 4si week. The recommendation was that I i> r th«' present the rent of 5s a week should cease.