CHARITABLE AID.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 148, 28 May 1885, Page 2

CHARITABLE AID.

The Dnnedin Herald has the following sensible observations on a very important social question, with the application and expediency of which wo entirely agreo :— " Tho large anm of £8000 a year, which is at present spout m Duuodin on benevolent as.sistanc, might Riirely bo laid out to hotter piirposft ttvui at present. A large portion of the amount

st;itod is lhv eouse ,uence probably of bread wiiiiHTH b'.-.iiij, r out of work. Instead of doles of charily, wnuld it not be more bnnerici&l to lay out some work near at hand, such as tho reclamation and ornamentation of tho Town Bolt, which might afford work for the nnetn, ployed ? A lady m London has given £1000 for laying out public gardens, on condition that the work be done by tho unemployed poor of the metropolis. On* i of the most beautiful walks m or aroti'id Edinburgh is that at the bant* of Sal'i*bury Crags, called th« Ridiunl-ro-id, which was made by the unemployed weavers som<» sixty years ago. Before allowing our destitute poor t« degeiie* rate into mere paupers, something should b« done m the way of utilising thoir i possible labor. r