Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1895. BENEVALENT AID.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5153, 11 October 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1895. BENEVALENT AID.

Ax the jaio meeting of tho North Wairarapa Deneyojent Society an elderly mini, Clarence Howe,' who had received assistance sonic time a,go, and who on golfing oinploymeut repaid t he amount, wrote asking that the Trustees grant him 10s Cd per week for three months to enublo him lo start, a market garden undertaking, and he would repay the account with inkrat as lie was enabled from (he sale of the produce. It is very much to be regretted that the Trustees should lntve telt themselves to be compelled to refuse 1111 application of such a character. A man who had proved himself to bo trustworthy asked for an advance which stretching over it period of thirteen weeks only amounted to six pounds thirteen shillings and

sixpence—(he average pensioner of the Society costs more' than tliis—and iiiulc|'taking tq rofut|(] the money, Thp applicant asked to bo helped to help himself, to have the means of £oingto work placed at liis disposal, Possibly in time it will be recognised in Now Zealand that the only sensible way of helping the destitute is to put them in the way uf obtaining work, Some years atjo this method was adopted by the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society, but it has fallen into disuse and now every applicant has to bo treated as a pauper lo wliom food must lie

doled out but who may not be giyen employment. Wu presume .the Socioty js spondjng six or seven hundred pounds every year in poor relief by'jveekly doles, i)iid at jlio 1 end of the year Ji.ow many of its pensioner? aro jiuj, ii) i\ portion jo jielti thpmsplyes t If, jpsfpud pf tliis doling system, ten pounds were spent

iu mio case and live 111 another and perhaps (jftcon in a third, in getting; ilf) dpstitiijie persons jn sqmp jiandi-} oraffc oi' .employment, the Society; might each yew conyei't forty pi': fifty paupers into forty or llfty'self.j supporting and self-reliant settlors, j This is the view wo have always taken on the subject of public poor teliof, and we trust soino clay to see it adopted, We admit that it is

one tlmt is surrounded with many difficulties, and that the .present method of udministnvtioin'soomjjarativcly easy, but the results of the system' we advocate would he so splendid that they would compensate for the additional cure and worry contingent upon them. To aid dircctandencouragoindividnaioffort, the only form of provident benevolence would require the co-operation of intelligent and philanthropic men and women in (he town, but such co-operation would, we feel sure, be given to the Trustees if it were asked for.