At the meeting of the Benevolent Trustees on Tuesday afternoon,'Mr Coleman Phillips made a few remarks upon the following motion, of which he had given notice, but which he was given to understand was ultra vires ‘ That the poor of the city be divided into five classes, viz (1) The deserving poor ; (2) the poor abandoned by their natural protectors or guardians ; (3) the idle poor ; (4) the drunken poor ; and (5) the dissolute poor, and that the three latter cases be relieved in future by the police and not by the poor rate Trustees.’ He thought if an amendment were made in the Act whereby the police would be empowered to deal with the last three classes, and the poor rate were to be applied to their case, Erivate benevolence, which had been checked y the existing Act, would come to the relief of the first two classes. The Chairman than ruled the motion to be ultra vires, saying it was a matter for the Legislature ani not for the Trustees. ?
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 37
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