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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 1 October 1909, Page 8

: A return submitted at ■" the monthly. meeting of thfe Wellington and Wairarapa Charitable Aid Board yesterday showed. that; the expenditure on outdoor relief in v tho. country districts under the administration of the Aboard' totalled' .£5124, made' up. as follows:—Orders on storekeepers, 'JBI400: rent, - jeSOO; cash,.: JMi funerals, - JE6O; niedical-attendance - and drugs, .£50," passa'gesV fthd .board:-en route .to -other parts, £U; temporary board lodging, .£250; children boarded out' ; (Wellington *. included), .£3010; other relief, J2100; ■ In submit- > ting; the return, the board's* - secretary (Mr. Qeorg:® Willis) drew • attention i to' the fact thai cash -advances-for poor-relief--were not . permitted now,.the only cash advances allowed being'in .respect- of- rent' or' rations,' and, these werb ■ paid direct"- to C the' landlord- or ' storekeeper; The 'chairman (Mr.' R: C. Kirk) marked that .tlieitmallness'';df jt.he' item—j£Wtfhowed that, the . system of cash advances had not been'abused-by- the local bodie* entrusted 13lb'' diooenains -of ch*iltj. .