BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION RELIEF.

Evening Star, Issue 8717, 8 January 1892, Page 2

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION RELIEF.

At the meeting of the Balclutha Borough Council on Tuesday evening a letter was received from the secretary Otago Benevolent Institution Intimating that it had been decided to discontinue relief to a man within the borough who was in recipt of 7s 6d a week. If, however, the man would convey his property to the Trustees be would be admitted ipto the Institution.' The Mayor (Mr Thomson) said he thought this esse had beep ipost unfairly put in the papers. When this case was recommended to the Board the whole matter was plainly put before them, and he (the mayor) thought then, and still thought, it was a most deserving case. Independent of the idea that his family would support him, the fact remained that the mao was lying on a bed of sickness, destitute. If the family were able to support . him, .then be, (the mayor) said it wps the doty of the Board tp compe) them tft .4ft !»• fn M»y case, the man oould,not be left alone and helpless in the boose to die, He again reiterated that it was a moat deserving cue for relief, and that the strictures passed upon it by the inspector were altogether out of place and uncalled for. No one oonld wonder at them, however, when they learned from whence the inspector pained his. information. Mr Dunne §ald hs|t{ioagh|i tbp heat thing the oilmen couvddo would be to baud b(s section oyer to.the Trustees add be provided wlthahdme for the rest of his days. ’ Wrty «fF«ked thas j>o housekeeper had an pterest p tip septpn, Mr Ifanne, contbplng, said the cgsp wap a most descrying one for chanty—-one of film most descrying he knew, typ wompn who Was hi? bousekeeppr h»d pprsed blip very kindly apd patiently, apd $o tbp be?t of her

ability, and the way in which the case had been referred to by (be inspector was quite unwarranted.

. Messrs Bell and Hntobina agreed that the beet thing the man oonld do was to hand hii property over to the Inetitution. The matter was left in the hands of the mayor.