THE SAMARITAN HOME.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11558, 20 April 1898, Page 6

THE SAMARITAN HOME.

' OP PETITIONERS. .'Ameeting of the petitioners iri favour of formingthe Samaritan Home into a separate institution; under the Hospitals and Chantsctile ; Institutions Act, was held in the City ';Coondl Chambers last night. , , Mr W. f Ghrystall was .voted to the chair, and, said' that all'the necessary steps had been taken under the-Act to’fornvthe Home into-a sepav rate institution, the Charitable Aid Board bad,objected thereto, and the meeting had beencalled to a .person to represent the'petitibfters on a commission which is to be set up according to the Act, with a view tb,' determining J whether‘or not there 1 Were' good reasons for forming the Home into a , separate'' institution. He could not think why the ” Charitable Aid Board .refused do givoits-consent. . He did not himself know .. 'thpeh. directly about the Home, though he ;pd long;bo$o 'a suhscriber'to.it,, but from Jjis knowledge of the work of Herrick’s rthat < :,:the 'Gbaritiibte Aid Board was unable. to cover all the ground ■ that vraS necessary with respect to charitable relief; Mr C. Hastings Bridge, chairman of the Samaritan Home Committee, proposed the Hon C. C. Bowen as the representative of f,the petitioners on the commission. He re- ' iparked that he did not think the petitioners , could have a better man to represent them. ~T|ie Bishop of Christchurch seconded the motion, arid endorsed the remarks of Mr Bridge.. . ■ ■. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr Bridge said that if the petitioners lost their case they would have to find the expenses .of the commission. The Managing Committee of'the Home had appointed a committee to look after the interests of the Home in connection with the commission, hie thought that tne petitioners should approve, of the appointment of that committee, as representing them, and proposed a motion authorising it to represent the petitioners, f The Bishop of Christchurch seconded the npiotion, and remarked that it ought to be distinctly understood that at the outset the . ; prQinoters of the Home had been strongly ■,-iirgad‘tp estaMiah it as a separate institution, - ,; ' l^6! i®d'3sS?'d6ne- so, on account of the representations of the Charitable Aid Board, which ..wished them to work together with it. , - The motion was carried unanimously, and and after some desultory conversation, the meeting closed.