H.—22.

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Table showing Number of Children for whom Maintenance is paid by Charitable Aid Boards, &c., at 31st March, 1905, and 31st March, 1906.

STATISTICS AS TO OUTDOOR RELIEF. Table I.—Causes of Poverty (Chief Causes, not Tributary Causes).

Boarded out. Paid for Institutions. Totals. i A A I " M , JU , CD Oi « CD <U £ «-H g - « r-i rH Q CO CO HH - M A o * en Vi rn CO , 1 , A A A 1 d o I 2 . 2 . g g n 2 a a a rH £ Q - 1 CO hH W CO CO 6 m cS s u o 9 M s s r-1 o North of Auckland Auckland Coromandel and Thames... Waikato Bay of Plentv ... Cook ... " ... Hawke's Bay ... ... Taranaki ... ... • ••• Hawera Patea and Wanganui Palmerston North Wellington Charitable Aid BoarcL.. Wellington Benevolent Trustees "... North Wairarapa Benevolent Society Wairau Picton Nelson ... Buller... Inangahua Grey ... Westland Ashburton and North Canterbury... South Canterbury North Otago Otago United ... Otago Benevolent Institution Southland 17 1 11 3 '2 4 5 14 6 1 "3 2 7 47 11 7 2 2 2 7 54 15 5 2 2 2 7 4 7 64 12 7 2 6 7 17 1 15 10 7 65 15 8 2 4 7 14 .1 3 1 4 5 171 6 4 2 "2 3 3 1 6 5 9 6 154 9 6 115 15 11 1 1 1 39 I 166 12 18 4 1 "(3 4 137 29 I 5 3 16 8 7 33 4 83 4 3 19 8 9 31 4 (57 I 14 173 1 6 3 32 8 7 33 12 137 36 18 5 3 81 8 9 46 16 121 • 43 14 1 16 12 4 3 i 15 12 j 54 42 15 4 2 2 2 13 4 *8 54 j 36 I 6 16 1 16 7 18 180 "4 7 4 ] 180 173 7 1 1 I 3 I - 2 2 4 2 i •■• Totals 183 209 15 41 605 549 75 19 788 758 64 84

(This tabic refers to outdoor relief and to heads o: fami ies on 45 O c3 o.l §0 -■a ™ o a rj o a acq It _ o «rS OA a$ «'r< °st 00 O o 6 ® rCrO 4 c6S >- rl s =° E=r1 cao W a) eg "rl o . a"S .£ =1 co S5 i5 X$ fl'B 6-3 55° 0 fl d K °= O Sr-m +3 > a M 2 ® a « a 3 i B 9 « e3 . &>, ca u o> 2 3 .2 o c3M ■So O r"Co a K _ o ■ m •as «3 £r3 4> a 8 o > B rrj © oa a fig ® ft ■ si's □ go „W o<1<! 55 4-5 •So •5-5 3 o»< o > o a « o >. "I A*> 55 Lack of employment — (1.) Able-bodied (2.) Inefficient Sickness Accident Insanity of bread-winner Imprisonment of bread-winner Desertion of bread-winner No male support— (1.) Widows (2.) Mothers of illegitimate children Intemperance Shiftlessness Physical defects Old age Causes undetermined 1 5 1 1 2 "7 1 1 1 16 75 10 13 25 2 4 ! 1 I 4 1 I 3 ! 3 | 9 I 25 45 ; 28 35 10 1 1 4 2 'i2 ' 2 17 9 114 5 11 8 31 2 16 1 2 1 16 "a ' 8 2 1 2 20 2 1 "l 2 5 3 10 2 4 2 27 10 1 23 3 3 1 5 1 8 80 22 33 26 2 5 4 10 15 60 10 85 218 ■• 1 2 7 11 5 20 74 14 1 "4 9 6 1 8 4 "3 8 .. 1 1 2 "5 1 32 ".3 1 "2 Total number of cases 55 ' 27 8 146 95 I 22 36 421 63 61