CHARITABLE AID.
If there is one thing more than another in which New Zealand should avoid the example of the Motherland it is in the system affording relief to the poor, remarks a southern contemporary. The English system is not only inhuman, but it increases rather than decreases pauperism; and even with a work-house in every city and town the authorities are still obliged to grant outdoor relief as well as maintain the work-houses. Moreover, what would be saved by establishing work-houses in this country? Judging by Home experience, we should lose considerably rather than gain. In 190(5 there were in the United Kingdom 1,089,001) paupers, who cost the country a total ot £16,741,000—0r, in other words, charitable aid costs each inhabitant of the United Kingdom nearly 8s per annum contrasted, with a little over 2a in New Zealand. So much for the work-house system, which we hope will never be established in New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9137, 9 July 1908, Page 4
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155CHARITABLE AID. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9137, 9 July 1908, Page 4
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