WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
UVOLVINU k KAR-RKAPWKi PKINCIPLV. 'From Oar Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Jan 21 The preparation of a scheme to secure the welfare of widows and orphans bereaved in the recent epidemic is proving difficult, and Cabinet has ; not jet come to a decision The Minister for Public Health states that lie is gathering information that will be placed before ltia colleagues The difficulty is to draw a dividing line between the people who are to have assistance and the people who arc to be denied it. The Government lias not been in the habit of giving aid to widows and orphans eveept in the form of the widows' pension. It can scarcely say now that the children whose father died of influenza are to be placed in a bcttn positior than llie orphans whose fathers succumbed to some other disease The need is the same in both car-es The scheme that has to be evolved i my o\v,vii a fat .wAchuig principle
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1919, Page 7
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163WIDOWS AND ORPHANS. Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1919, Page 7
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