BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6269, 24 July 1907, Page 7

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION

Tho Benevolent Trustees met yesterday. Present—The Bov. W. A. Evans (chairman), Messrs H. Cook, J. Wakeham, G. London, D. Robertson, and Mra Darvall.

The secretary (Mr A. H. Trucbridge) reported that there were eeventy-four males and twenty-seven females in- the Ohiro Home, a total of 101.

In respect of an application from the Moeterton Charitable Aid Board for refund qf money paid to a destitute woman from Island Bay legal opinion was received. This was to the effect that as the woman in question had resided in Masterton for some weeks before receiving relief the Benevolent .Trustees were not liable. What the chairman described as " one of the :most wretched cases we have had before us for a long time “ was dealt with amongst the applications .for relief. A woman of about thirty attended, and stated that she had been deserted a week ago by the man with whom she had been living for six years. She was left with four children in an absolutely starving condition, and expected an addition in about a fortnight. From last Sunday to Tuesday they had had no food at all. At present she and her children were living with a woman who was herself an applicant for relief. The Trustees granted rent and rations. Several other necessitous cases were dealt with. DUMPING A CONSUMPTIVE. A young woman, far gone in consumption, was recently deserted in Foxton by her husband. She was found in a tent. An application was made by some of her friends to Mother Mary Joseph Aubert to take the woman in at her Island Bay Home. Despite tho fact that a reply was sent that consumptives could not be taken_ in at the borne in question, this particular consumptive was, a day or -two ago, brought into Wellington, taken to Island Bay in a cab, and placed on Mother Aubert’s doorstep. These facts were related to the Trustees by the secretary (Mr A. fl. Truebridge), who stated also that Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer, had* sent in a request that the Trustees should send the woman back to Palmerston North Hospital in charge of somebody. She was not fit to travel alone. The secretary was instructed to act on Dr Mason’s advice in the matter, and charge the cost to the Palmerston North Hospital Board.