BENEVOLENT TRUSTEES.
Tho .Trustees of the Benevolent. Institution met yesterday afternoon. Mr. F. 6. Bolton was in the chair, and there wero also present Messrs'! H. Cook, D. Robertson and A. CPearci and Mrs. 'D.irvall. ■ Accounts amounting t0.£297 lis. 7d. wero passtxl for jiayVincnt'. V v Tho' Secretary reported tho number of inmates .at tho Ohiro Home_to bo 100 (63 nialo ar.d 32 female),, an increaso of ono over tho previous •,txelc's .tola!*.. With regard to tendors, tho secretary ivas authorised to substitute, at his,discretion, sureties for the' usual ;deposit of £20."\ A case lvhich has been before tiio iioanl sovoral tiincs ).K. I forc ivas that woman :ivho wishes to' get to South' 'Africa to her. relatives.., For some time past blio has' been dependent. upon • tho Trustees, having oost-them; closo : o'n £16 anmialhv To sond her with her daughter to South-Africa would cost • the Benevolent Institution £33 123., Wan amount £8 15s. collected by Hiss Kirk, the Institution's visitor. Jt va3 .resolved to mako up tho passage-money, the arrangement;of 'details to. be. left, for a future .mooting, since no passages could bo booked; boforo May. Applications for, relief, tho: number of .which was'..unusually. small, wero with,: ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 149, 18 March 1908, Page 11
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