Tins year the demand for charitable aid in the Wellington District jumps up from seven to ten thousand pounds, an enormous sum for a small community liko this. Have we five thousand paupers amongst us averaging four pounds each, or two thousand averaging ten pounds each ? No one knows, for no statistics arc given to the people who find the money. The administering bodies ask for lump sums, get what they ask, and spend it as they like. Ten i thousand pounds from the ratepayers' pockets and another ten from the same source, through the Government, make our little annual bill of twenty thousand pounds for charitable aid in the Wellington United District. We honestly beliove that more than half this great sum is spent not in decreasing but in increasing the poverty of the population by encouraging its recipients to rely upon alms rather than on enterprise and industry. For ten years the. evil Ims been growing and it is time for it to bo faced and checked.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4990, 1 April 1895, Page 2
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