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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3831, 13 June 1891, Page 2

The North Wairarapa Benevolent Society yesterday took the extraordinary course of cuutioning the public against giving assistance to a certain

family. In Masterton private benevolence often duplicates tbe public gratuity, and persons who desire to Ifre without working, frequently spnnge on the public purse, and on the private contribution simultaneously. No doubt hundreds of pounds are wasted annually on well intended but misdirected benevolence, and we fear that the loss of the money is not the exten tof the evil. A pauper cl ass is being bred by a profuse distribution of public and private allowances which will become a curse to the Colony. It would be well for the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society to go a step further and publish the names of all the persons to whom allowances are made and the amounts which are voted in aach case. Publicity would soon check the evil which is now so apparent.

A resident in the Bush recognised in a draft of Wellington unemployed the other day a couple of worthies who were a short time ago arrested for larceny in the Empire City. It would appear that the bush is being used as a dumping ground for members of the criminal class, and it is hardly fair at a time when a considerable number of decent men, accustomed to out-door labour, are looking for work in the Fahiatua County to forestall them with the refuse population of the city. The arrangement is distinctly an advantage to the town at the expense of the country. If the Government continue sending undesirable characters into this district, it may become necessary for settlers here to contiuue to ship back to Wellington the men who are not wanted. Apparently all the Government appears anxious to do is to clear the City of riff raff at the cost of this district. Settlers will not stand treatment of this kind, and the soone:: [ it is changed the better.