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Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 351, 23 August 1907, Page 3

mmmmmmmmmmmaaaaamcmm Tbe Inspector-General of Charitable Institutions, in his annual report^ makes some interesting observation? which call for'serious attention. L-ut year the colony spent £66,088 on tho relief of its poor, and details as to the causes of the poverty of the recipient s are interesting, as showing thai, among its small population there are already the seeds and earlier growths of that destitution which is, and .il most always lias been, such a regrettable feature of the older countries of the world. Of the recipients of r.lief, it appears, fifteen had to seek public aid through " shiftlessness"; fifteen cases were due to intemperance ; no less than 77 were dv . to the desertion of the bread-winne*. ; 94 able-bodied and 96 inefficient persons sought relief on account of la .k of employment; in as many as 23' * cases sickness was the cause; and in twenty-two cases the destitution whs brought about by the insanity of the bread-winner. Then there were -IS widows; thirty-four mothers of illegitimate children ; 65 people who sufferv ed from physical defects; 193 whose only drawback was old age, and fortyfour "cause undetermined" ; besides twenty who were driven to seek relief through accidents. Also we read that the various Charitable Aid Boards were at the end of the financial year paying for the maintenance of 832 children, an increase of 67 over the previous year. A pretty wedding was solemnised in the Matakohe Church on Wednesday, August 7. the contracting parties being Miss Jennie Armstrong, eldest daughter of Mr J. Armstrong, and Mr C. G. Stockley,"of Taranaki. The Rev. Mr Mc William (Anglican horn« missionoary) was the officiating clergyman. A goodly number of friends witnessed the ceremony. The britV is well-known, having resided in the district from girlhood, and by her pleasant and kindly disposition won many friends The bridegroom is also well and favourably remembered as one of the previous managers of the Matakohe creamery, he having sine* occupied a similar position in Tarinaki. The bride was tastefully attired in white silk, with transparent yoke, silk insertion and lace, with veil and orange blossoms The bridesmaids were Miss Ruby Wallace iwhice silk), A. Armstrong (cream silk), is and V. Armstrong (white hailstone muslin, with blue silk sashes and picture hats). Messrs S. Stockley ami J. H. Armstrong filled the positions of best man and groom.man respectively. Subsequent to the ceremony, an adjournment was made to the Matakohe Hall, where the invited friend? sat down to a bountiful wedding breakfast. the evening further detachments of guests arrived, and dancing, inter spersed with musical items, was the order till the sm-i'l hours. Tangible expressions of goodwill were also in evidence in maiv pretty and useful presents from *;he friends of the bride and bridegroom. Mr and Mrs Stockley left by the stoimer for their future home in Feilding. —Auckland Herald.