A HARD CASE,.
At the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board (says the Southland Times) an aged man, with faltering gait and partially blind, who had come from Dipton, waited on the Board with a request that he should be taken into the home. Addressing the Chairman, he said—" Noble sir, I have ijeen helpless, blind, and sick I have no friends, no relations iv the land, neither kith nor kin. So long as ,ny wife lived %ye struggled along comfortably, but since she died I have failed in health and sight, and now I want the Board to take my little property and take care of mc for the remainder of my life. The only conditions I ask are that when my property is sold a few pounds shall be set aside to pay some smalt debts so that I can settle fair with everyone, as I have always tried to do, and that when I die my remains shall be buried in Dipton." In answer to the Chairman, he said his property was worth £70, and his burial ground was already set apart. The Secretary was instructed to ascertain all particulars with regard to the sections referred to, and the Chairman assured the applicant that the Board would take care of him as well as they possibly could.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9521, 14 September 1896, Page 5
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