BENEVOLENT TRUSTEES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 2747, 19 February 1896, Page 2

BENEVOLENT TRUSTEES.

There were present at the weekly meeting of the Benevolent Institution Trustees yesterday afternoon Eev H. Van Staveron (in the chair), Messrs P. Bradey, J. Collins, Mothas, G. H. Baylis, C. B. W. Willeston. Leave of absence was granted from the meeting to Mr S. Lancaster, and for a month to Mr T. W. McKenzie owing to ill health. An old man who had previously been in the Home, and who had been trying his luck in the country, bnt was too old to dojhard work, was sent to the Homo again. A woman with five children who had come from England some few months ago with her husband, who had been unable to obtain work, applied for relief, and was granted rations and 3s per week. Another woman with five children, and whose husband was in the Hospital, was granted 4s a week and rations. Assistance was granted to a woman whose husband is working on the relief works, but is not earning enough to provide her with proper nourishment, she being in ill health. An old woman whose

husband had j'ono to X’almerston 1 doclarotl tlifik alio was now quite “ desolate/' and ankod tlio TrnsteeH to grunt her a passage to Palmerston, which was done. A jjassage was granted to Sydney to a woman and her two children, her husband having gone there to look for work.