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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 7

Director of Tourist Resorts, told a Dominion reporter yesterday that: the prospects for the coming toS season were very bright. The traffic at tho iiorthern resorts was heavier than ■ it was at tho same early dato last year. Advicev from Hf CaDX at S - vdne s'^ n( ! Melbourne were decidedly encouraging, showing that inciuiries were numerous and that the tours proposed were moro oxtensive than had usually been the casein tho. past.. This was, doubtless attributable to tho prosperous condition of Australia at tho present time. :

.Tho fact that one of the' inmates , of the Benevolent Institution will shortly receive a three-monthly instalment of a pension which lio holds from the Imperial Government, and that nono of it can he claimed - for. his maintenance in the institution, and this further,fact that the money was likely to- disappear very soon nfter it was received, gave the lfenevolent Trustees cause for reflection 011 Monday after, noon (sav6 the "Otago Daily Times"). It was argued that as the pension was given ,to keeD thu veteran in his old age, and that as the trustees performing that fnntfion, they were rightly entitled to bo repaid from the' pensjou . for. the expenditure incurred. It waa .niado cleaf, however, that, in accordance with tho torms of the pension, this could not be done, and in order to have this position reroediecl tho following motion, put forward by Mr. J. M. GoJlttiray, was carried :-"Thnt tho attention of tho Minister bo directed to tho fact that under the present laws no Imperial pension can be rendered liable to any contributions for charitable aid, and that fio be requested to consider whether, with the co-opera-tion of the Imperial authorities, every such pension shall become iiablo as a contribution towards'the support of any person receiving charitablo aid.") : ;