CHARITABLE AID.
. FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY. A STRATFORD CASE. (By Wire.—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night, Mr. Masters' asked the Minister of Public Health (Mr. Parr) whether something could be done to relieve the Hospital Board in his district of the charge imposed upon it by the necessity lor maintaining the five children of a man who was hanged for murder. The Board, at present, had to pay something like £IOB a year for the support of tliei children, and it would have to continue to support them till tliey reached the age of 18. If it had been called on to deal with many such cases the Board would have been unable to carry on. Mr. Pan- replied, late in the evening, that the Hospital Board had 110 legal claim on the Government. He would look into the case with the object of seeing if he could help the Hospital Board, but lie was dubious about it. The law had to he administered.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1920, Page 5
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