CHARITABLE AID

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 130, 6 June 1929, Page 12

CHARITABLE AID

A NATIONAL MATTER?

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) .. | AUCKLAND, This Day.i _ A deputation from the Hospital Board ' interviewed Sir Joseph Ward and asked that charitable relief should be made national. Mr. W. Wallace, chairman, said that the larger boards were at a disadvantage, "as while the smaller ■ boards did not contribute to unemployment relief, men from outside were coming into the city and swelling tfie •;, ranks of the unemployed. Thsy asked " for special assistance financially : ..to meet the strain on the larger boards. Sir Joseph Ward replied that Parliaj meat would have to be consulted before I any revision of the system could be made. The; Government had already- >' granted £-140,000 to public bodies to.' - [ enable them,to put men. on special -^ works. He was prepared to implement ;- £25,000 for the Auckland City. Council. ■■ ' i If the Corporation was prepared to -ac- '-' cept that money and provide suitable ■' work, he thought unemployment would - be lifted entirely from Auckland withlin the nest few months. Though, hia own view was that the deputationfiad suggested something which could not.be done, the request would receive careful consideration. - Mr. Wallace congratulated Sir Joseph "Ward on his project to provide a residence for unfortunate people not .eligible for the,existing instttutions/.and -said he hoped the proposal would bs> given effect this session.