BENEVOLENT TRUSTEES.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 52, 30 August 1893, Page 4

BENEVOLENT TRUSTEES.

Tho Benevolent trustees met yesterday t (here being prchent — The Rev. H. Van • ta\ crcn (Chairman), Messrs. S. Lancaster, T. M'Kenzie, J. H. Heaton, and C. E, Willestou. A woman appeared and asked for assistance until Satuiday, ns her husband, who is in the country, will be able to send her money by that time. Tho assistance as-ked for was granted. The action of the Secretary in giving relief to a man who had been only able to make Is (id a day uncier the co-operative system was approved. It was reported that a yonng woman living at New town had refused to allow one of her brothers, who was being supported by the Trustees, to go to service in the country, saying that she was not going to )pt him be n farm labourer. Her action was strouglj condemned, and it was decided that the boy should receive no further relief. It was also decided to draw up a resolution to meet similar cases. A middle-aged man, with a very feeble voice, waited on the Ho'ird and asked for Obsistance, as he could not work. He said ho had a brother who hai a large farm in th" Wairarapa. The Trustees ordered the poor fellow into the Home. The sum of £1 was voted for the nursing of a poor woman. A man who said his wife and family were in Victoria, and who applied to he sent to that colony, was supplied with blankets, and it was resolved to pay his passage up country in the Wellington district. A foreigner wbo had been a«si>-ted for a few days applied for further relief. He is a cook by occupation, and he admitted that he would not stay on board one of the Union Company's boats because he could not be chief cook. The Trustees voted another neck's rations, and informed him that he would afierwaids be obliged to look after himself. It was resolved 'o forward to Fox ton a man who was anxious to get work there.