WELLINGTON CHRISTIAN LADIES ASSOCIATION.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 83, 9 April 1881, Page 2

WELLINGTON CHRISTIAN LADIES ASSOCIATION.

The third annual meeting of tho above Association was held at the Athenaeum yesterday afternoon, at half-past 3 o'clock, and was numerously attended. Tho report of the committee, which was adopted, detailed a large amount of work accomplished during the year. At the Dorcas meetings 398 garments had been made, and the3e, with numerous donations, enabled the Association to distribute 1476 articles of clothing (now and old), exclusive of materials, beds and bedding, and 92 pairs of buots ; 178 families had been otherwise relieved. Visits had been paid to the Hospital and to tho Gaol, and efforts made to comfort, direct, and guide. Mothers' meetings had been hold in various parts of the city, at which the Bible and useful b"oks were read ; and a small lending library circulated amongst the members. The orphans under the charge of the Benevolent society had, at tho request of the committee, been visited at their hom°s, and had been supplied with suitable clothing. The present Home for friendless women was found to be far too small for tho pnrposo for which it was instituted Proper classification is impossible, and it was felt that a suitable building must be erected before tho object of tho Home can bo accomplished. About .£6OO has been accumulated by donations, by the proceeds of the concert bo kindly given by the Harmonic Club, and by the Government subsidy. It was hoped that a suitable site would soon be obtained, and that funds would be forthcoming for the building bo urgently required. The accounts show a credit balance from last year ot 6a lOd, and the sum of J2275 10a 8d received during the year, out of wuich £12,1 11s Id ha 3 been expended in varions forms in relief of distress ; books for the lending library, j6l; sundries for tho Home, £2 19d 6d ; printing and stationery, SI 5* 5d ; and jEl7ri allocated to the building fuud leaving a balunce of J631 Is 6d in hand with which to commence the work of another year. The aim of the Association, it will be seen, is to suicor the distressed, to aid the weak, and to raise tho fallen, and it will no doubt commend itself to the sympathy and help of the ladies of Wellington who have not yet joined in the work of visiting and relieving the poor at their homes.