RELIEVING DISTRESS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1135, 24 May 1911, Page 6

RELIEVING DISTRESS.

CHARITABLE AID COMMITTEI The Chnritablo Aid Committee mefc yesterday afternoon, Air. J. W. M'Ewan presiding. Also m-ossnl were tho Rev. W. A. Evans and Mci-rs. D. M'Laren and AV. Galloway.

A number of applications for renewal Of relief were granted, the applicants ranging from a young mother of two children, destitute owing to her husband beiiiK out of v«r)i, to elderly people, wlium! days of wo;I; are ever.

It iv not often that a Salvationist applies to the committee for veliet, but a w.'.iueu put in au appc.-.rauea yesterday who wove tho Aruiv uuil'orm. She had beer, for coma w--i-ks incapacitate,! by illii'>:- from earning a living, and was not yet roslorcd to irallh. The oonuniltro rranlv-d her application for renewal of iv-lii.-i\ . . .

Miws. J. Static:, and Co., LM„ notified that, as in nrovious years, they would dona.lv 10 tons of coal, to h> used in tho iistifiitions under the control of tho committee. On the motion of (lie chairman, it was agreed that Mfmrs. Staples and Co. bo thanked for their liberal annual donation. Sir. D. Ncal forwarded his resignation from the position of infirmary attendant at (lio Oliiro Home. It was decided to recommend that fresh applications be called, oll'on'ng n .-alary of .170 a year, with a guarantee of a. £10 rise at llic end of a year, should the now- attendant give satisfaction. The Deputy-Commissioner of Old Ago Pensions uroio inquiring what propoi'Uon of the pension was paid personally to pensioners accommodated at the home. The superintendent was instructed to snpoLv tho iuforuiation Jr*iiivnL,