NORTH W/JRARAPA BENEVOL' BNT SOCIETY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2265, 8 April 1886, Page 2

NORTH W/JRARAPA BENEVOL' BNT SOCIETY.

A meeting of the Committee was held in the Institute yesterday. Present.-Rev, W. E. Paige (Chairman) Rev, J, N. Buttle, and Mesdames Paige and Gapper. The minutes of the previous. meeting wore read and confirmed, and tho Treasurer reported a credit balance of £9 19s. Tho following accounts were passed for paymentJ. G. Mackay £1 10s. J. Graham £8 12s Cd. The following correspondence was read:—Prom the Wairarapa East County Council, covering tho following; resolution ''That in order to enable the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society to carry on its work without applying to the United District Board for funds, to provide which it would have to levy a rate on tho County, this Council is prepared to advance a sum of Fifty pounds to the Society, but the Council trusts that the Society will endeavor to obtain tho sum by voluntary subscriptions, as the contributions asked from the County and iJorouEfh are nothing more or less than a 'tax on rates, and tho Council believes that if an appeal ia made to settlers, tho requisite amount of money can be obtained to recoup the £SO advanced by the County," From tho Mastorton Borough Council, agreeing to grant the sum of £25 applied for by the Benevolent Society, upon the same understanding as to conditions as the grant made by the County Council. From tho Premier's office m reference to gazetting the Society as a separate institution in terms of section 43 of the act. From tho United District Board asking for returns of the estimated income and expenditure of the Society for the ensqing year. From the sons of a recepient of relief, asking the Society to forward their paront to then® From the son of another person who was in receipt of relief stating that he had written to his parents to arrange for their support, Messrs J, Graham and J. Sinclair waited as a deputation from the Committee who had collected subscriptions for tho relief of the family of the lato John M. Beer, and asking tho Committee to disburse the same. The Committee consented to do so, and arranged that the sum of 25b per be paid for the benefit of the widow and orphans for twelvemonths, andthe>sum of 20s per week for a further period of tweive months In the case of a woman whose husband had deserted her and could .not be found by the police, it was resolved that the sum of 60s be voted towards defraying her expenses to Napier The action of the Secretary in dealing with several minor cases was endorsed. This concluded the business.