CHARITABLE AID.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9033, 26 February 1908, Page 7

CHARITABLE AID.

WELLINGTON-WAIRARAPA DISTRICT.

Levies for .submission to a statutory m«etiqg ■«* the Wellington and Wairarapa Charitable Aid JJoard -were provisionally approved at a meeting of that body'sjexecutive, held yesterday, when the members present were-—Messrs R. C. Kirk (chairman), W. H. Morrah, F. Cohen, and Coles. . , The amounts are approximate, and representative of tße sums to be paid to the recipient bodies. The amounts ■of levies to be made on the contri.brHng bodies have not yet been app Mmed, but these will be subrmSed to a meeting of the board to be held on March 13th. The respective amounts of disbursements in the Wairarapa and Bush districts are as follows: n Wairarapa North Institution, £720. Wairarapa South County Council,

'* -£175 Pahiatua County Council, £l2O. Eketahuna County Council, £IOO. Castlepoint County Counicl, £SO. .Akitio County Council, £24. Mauriceville County Council, £IOO. Featherston County Council, £IOO. Carterton Borough Council, £l5O. Greytown Borough Council, £l7O. Pahiatua Borough Council, £2O. Featherston Town Board, £ls. Maryborough Town Board, £393. Correspondence was received from the Mauriceville, Eketahuna, Carterton, oJ|d Levin Councils, regarding the comments made at the board's previous meeting as to the ways in which recipients of charitable aid in those parts spent their money. The letters showed that enquiries had been made into several cases, and that in odd instances alterations had ' been made. It was, however, stated by one board that the circumstances of applicants varied, and "a hard and fast rule could not be fixed as to what form of aid was to be granted." The town clerk of Levin wrote that he noticed there was soms stir as to the way in which the recipients of charitable aid spent their money, but it semed • to him that there was a minor matter; the chief thing was for the local authority to allow a fair and just sum based on the price of necessities, and then if the recipienl,«referred a tin of sardines to a couple of pounds of meat the clerk did not see that it made any difference to the local body. It was resolved to discuss the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Bill next month, when there will be a full meeting of the board.