IMPORTANT CHARITABLE AID CASE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1826, 8 December 1888, Page 3

IMPORTANT CHARITABLE AID CASE.

At Dunedin on Wedensday Mr Justice Williams gave his decision in the appeal ease from the Resident Magistrate's Court, in which Ithe Otago Benevolent Trustees sued the South Canterbury Charitable Aid Board for £2llos, value of outdoor relief supplied to one Maggie Sharp who had formerly been tn inmate of the Timaru institution. The point involved was the meamng of section 74 of the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Act, 1885, and especially the words, “Provided the person has resided in the lass mentioned district at least six months before he entered the institution from which he obtained relief." The Resident Magistrate decided that "continuous” residence was no* D6C6OBAT7 I . „ . Mr Justice WiUiami said the section was »n imperfect attempt to deal concisely with a very troublesome question. It seemed to him that the six months might hare reference to the period of residence m the district which is to charged, add apart from the English oasis (which do not afford any very great assistance) it seemed that the natural meaning of the words is that the residence must be continuous. In the present case there was'an undoubted break in the residence in Timaru. During the six months before she came down to Otago she had ceased to reside within the Timaru district. He held that in order that the Benevolent Institution may recover that it should appear that during the whole of the six months before she came down to the Otago district she had resided within the Timaru district. For these reasons, therefore, the appeal must be allowed with the usual costs.