CHARITABLE AID.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2045, 13 May 1890, Page 3

CHARITABLE AID.

We have received the following with a request to publish TO THE EDITOR, Sir,— I would through your valuable paper return my sincere thanks to the many kind people that subscribed towards myself and children, especially Mrs Lawson and Pleasant Valley people, as they have bo often helped us in our need of food. To name my supporters would take too much of your valuable time, so to speak the truth I want you to say I collected £1 5s and tea, sugar, soap and meat on Sunday, encouraged by a stranger giving, me a shilling to buy sugar for the baby. 'Did not know when begging that I was refused by the board. Am quite sure that my husband, if not in the hospital, is an hospital case, as I never studied a remedy for convulsive fits taken in sleep and very dangerous. For about ten months he is taking the fits. I would tell the board’s informant that I will pull through the winter now with the help of God ; also, if Quaid is not in the hospital X do not know where he is.—l am, etc., Sarah Quaid, Arundel, Rangitata. South Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Timaru, N.Z., 19 April, 1890, Mrs Quaid, Arundel, Madam, —I have, the honor by instruction of the above board to inform you that in reply to. request for relief the board decided from available information to decline to accede to your request, and to inform you that your husband has not " been in the Timaru Hospital, at all events not lately, no one of that name being on the hospital books, —I am, etc., B, Or win, Secretary. We should like to know a little more about this case, as, if there is no reason to the contrary, it appears a case for charitable aid.