RELIEF OF DISTRESS.
AUCKLAND'S BIG BILL
[THIS PEBSB Special Service.]
AUCKLAND, November 7. Poverty is knocking so persistently at Auckland's door that it is estimated by the "chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board (Mr William Wallace), who is competent to judge of the position, that the city's relief of distress bill aggregates £100,000.a year. This rather startling figure includes charitable aid, which promises to reach £42,000 this year, and the value of food and clothing distributed week in and week out by the benevolent. societies. "For the year 1923 the Board paid £18,600 in relief, while for the first six months of the present year we have paid £21,000," explained Mr Wallace. from officers of the Boa:d show , that there has been practically no falling off in the number of applicants for assistance, and if we continue as we are doing we will spend £42,000 this year In view of the Board's experience it would be interesting to know the gross amount paid by the various social organisations operating in and around the city in cash and kind, and I don't think it would be out of the way to say that it runs to probably £IOO,OOO a year."
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19462, 8 November 1928, Page 8
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