CHARITABLE AID.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 951, 19 October 1910, Page 4

CHARITABLE AID.

UNDER THE NEW REGIME.

V.Under,, the Jnew ' regime/ 'inaugurated by ;the,reconstitution.pf. the,bodies under: a central hospital'."and"charitable aid .board,; /there .is being-developed a hew system of dispensing-charitable aid" in' the Wellington and v out. districts'. Atrfthe—monthly.; meeting+of-rthe -HWel--lingtoii' Board yesterday,; the. dnaritable Aid .Committee tabled' an-interestr :ing .precis 'of -the system ■the altered conditions.of administrative controlj'had:,.been ,erplyed by it. ..JThe affording: rjelief* inTout-of-tpwM,-siib-district's lij; v ih€ans,,of s'tandard r rations* are;'; proving satisfactory .stated the committee..' All : th'e cases .ifiji ihe>-Hutt -Valley/;Jolinsonville,. and HuttjCounty sub-districts 'have. : been" ..carefully.;inquired into,mm t&Z; resul_t : that : reductions:--have been possible!;in , , these:-districts',to an,. extent;;;which Tepresents-'nearly;.-'. £400. per: anhiiin. , •>'' :^'.-':i-

;, .'-Knowing,, from : im-. porbahce'of '. personal ■made for charitable aid, jit was; arranged;frbm ;tne commencement that c, -the superintendent "should attend at. Petone' each week to. confer with the chairman ;of the Hutt Valley Committee, andiin-' ; ;teryiew;: applicants V and- issue .relief.' There .is ; , ample 'iproof. tnat this : couf bg ; is a judicious, one. .Among others, .it Kas disclosed' the '..curious-.-,-r|aot,'>f"-.-uiat'. monetary-' assistance"^from','a local: body is ■ not .'infrequently 'regarded as';' some-, thing , quite" different ■: fromv receiving' charitable:aid. '■'■■•■. v' ;' '.. /.;•;; c.'V , ::..'

;."The administration. .qf.. the : Horowheriua. district, reason, of 'its large extent,',:has, presented some difficultjes';but"quotations Tiavuig ed -' for, ■ thfe' : supply,; of,- : .rations in the' various .townsnipsj, it is. confidently ,i'pp^»'tlateTerytliiiig:rin.^y-.be < : ; ness to relieve" the;. local i; bodies r ' from. their present, voluntary■'• responsibilities at .the end of tie. monfb. On completion 7 of the- arrangements- in- -bne Horc-. \v*heiiu'a> district, charitable -aid. adniihistratioh of tlib' board;, mil ; be fixed on a uniform, and homogeneous ' basis. TOiile the ultimate control will:,be centralised/in '.the board, as.contemplated by the: Act, the detaited administration will, be, ; localised. in the various com-niittees.r't-The; principle, so unanimously supported by. every competent. authority, of relief in kind on'iiv, standard, which; , .;while ensuring ;the' : -necessaries of existence," renders ! -self-help.-'in'dis- , pensable, Sill have' been systematically; adopte^'and ;; the unsatisfactory.'and •.de-. 'moralising' effect's which have;■.;.every-; where been found to follow upon relief in. money or unrestricted/ orders ..will have , been, • as.far as possiblej' ; .guarded against by what have been; shown dyer. and over again, to be the most effective methods."- ; v. .' ; '•"•',•■■• ''■''■'&'■'.