CHARITABLE AID.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13102, 29 April 1908, Page 7

CHARITABLE AID.

ALLEGED ABUSES.

(PRXS4 ASSOCIATION TEUNHUUC.) ' >.. WELLINGTON, April 2ft. Muse Kirk made a report to-day-td' ">~ the Wellington and. Wairarapa ChaitfU -""• able Aid Board on investigational made ' •■ *\ throughout the district into the air- > ] cumstanoes of people ia receipt «ff am- . sistance. Some of "the oaeee ace «orpxieing. For example:— '■" ( _ ~ ■ Country-—Married man.; four chii-r >-i dren; family alleged to t*,, «xtz*<} /~ vagant: one mrl • getting roQed jgold \ 1 epectacks, and a ,boy * bicjele,-ooefc-;■. •; hag £4, to deliver papers: rent paid; ** J Tv-ith rations; rocomme&datioii that i-j rent< bo etrnck off. i_ \'f> Wellington Subnrbs—Wottjm witK * thiee chfldreo; weekly umjoum. £2 Sβ.- r" ,"Tlms case," remarks UoiCxL <% /ft rather unoaual, beoaoee'in . to the income mentioned, (fee reoipt- ' \ on I is receiving £2 10b i&teraat " ;' t quarter ,pn a sum left by ber- lu»-_ "ii band, whtich will givo the . chaidran'"4*'? £60 or £70 a year when thenars of \ *' ago. The rccommefidatMa m that ,H 5 the grant *bo reduoed from 10a to 6a, n ' % Wellington «Uoh --** recipients live ie their own,/worth <r£B3o, subject to * *m*H morteaee;.'- > recommendation that grant of lOe a' ; should cease. ■■ ■ Coantry Recipient*—OWest eon '22; another married; three gixfc at.vqric; property free from debt; receiving 10s a week; th«y have lad 2261b of sugar and 17fiflj of flour in three months, and do not make their o*n '' ~' broad; recommendation -that grant "" *' should cease. . \ Wellington Sttbnrbs—Recipient wkJi four children; boarders' income £7 4s ± a week; recommendation that for the present the rent grant, of 03 a week oeaae. .