CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9319, 14 March 1893, Page 4

CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

; . The Charitable Aid Board met yester- >' day in the old Provincial Council 'cr>' Chamber. Present— Messrs H. P. Cohen v (in the chair), G. H. Swan, M.H.R., . Douglas M'Lean, H. Williams, J. N. : Williams, C. Villers, G. Fanlknor, and ; : G. Rymer. -i ". SATISFACTORY SOLUTION. '-_', At the last meetiag of the Board there , oame before the members the case of a ' " \roin~an-from the Palmerston district. She ; was addicted to opiam taking, and had ; .-come to this district: without any fande. '■- She had to be sen bto the refuge The ■ secretary was instracted to write to the -Charitable Aid Board at Palmerston, and ' -ad the meeting yesterday he read a reply * ' to bis letter to the effect that the Palmer--Bton Board recognised their liability, and :» would ebb that the woman was provided i. for if she was Bent back. The cost of her would also be refunded. v... The Chairman stated that the woman :-;>badV been eent by the Board to her si husband, a settler at Fitzherbert. §V' £?;'. THE JUBILEE SOCIETY. v K In reference to the question of whether ithe Board coold accept the snm of £27 fhom -the ' Ladies' Jubilee Benevolent ■f Society at Woodville, and so procure Rwnbaidy from, .the Government for the ■fsoclety, the Board at their previous meet■llnjf£4eeideoV to submit the matter to the Hgborougb solicitors. These now wrote Bijtatlßg that as the only objection by Dr. HttMGregor to the coarse proposed was Bpftsed upon the supposition that the Board S^Md not intend to hold themselves respoD Hftgble for. the expenditure of the money, H^ijjffcfhat objection now appeared to ■jliaS'beentemoved by the Board deciding KroEna'fe the 'money ' spent nnder their ■Sppntrol, there would be no impropriety in JHfrffplyingfor the subsidy, nor any reaion Hp^^Chsirman said be conld, see no ■R»»*3cfetytlian there wm in getting one B~fcrthb Qaeeh'i Fand»«r~ ■jMlt :wi» ; deol4e4' to accept the money W3jjuf?ffiym>t\u Qwttnmtnt aatildy

ESTIMATES FOK 1893-94. In laying npon tho table the estimates for the year 1893-94, the Chairman said he| was pleased to state that they were Blightly less than for the preceding year; The snm required was £335 less than last year, and tbe levies upon the local bodieß wonld be at the rate of only one-fiftieth of a penny in tbe £1 instead of one- thirtieth, as last year. No worthy case had been refnsed relief, but the Board had stamped upon tbe loafer element, The only district in which the estimated expenditure showed an increase was Patangata County, which formerly used to do with £100, bnt this year reqnired £210. VOUCHERS. Vouchers to the amount of £111 14s 3d were passed for payment, and the Board adjourned.