CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10239, 22 December 1894, Page 2

CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

A meeting of tho committee of the United Districts Charitable Aid Board, held on Thursday, was attended by Messrs Robin (chairman), Miller, Hardy, Monson, Green, M.H.R., and Snow.

A requisition was received from the Bcnerelent Institution for £917 12s. The net expenditure of the institution For the month endftd November 30 amounted to £772 18s lOd, and the amount; of requisition unpaid for last mouth was £144 13s 2d.

The Chaiumau said the trustees of the institution were £111 under their estimate for the mouth, and suggested that they should be p.iid the amount of their monthly estimate— namely, £833 6« Bd.—lt wr.s agreed to pay £333 6a Bd, an interim payment of £500 having been made.

Mr Snow drew the attaution of the committee to the case of a woman who had been refused admission into tho Benevolent Institution and into the hospital. The doctors said she was Buffering with an incurable complaint, ai.<d her husband, who lived in the country, was willing ta pay £1 a week for her keep in some institution. There did not, however, appear fco ba any institution where the could bg admitted, as she was not destitute. He (Mr Snow) thought that there should be some institution for the reception of such cases.

After some discussion, it was decided to refer the matter to Me Snow, to bring under the notice of the Bun(j»oleufc Trustees at their nest meeting.

Mr Wales submitted plans of alterations sind additions to the Fenmle Hefuge, and he wan authorised to call for tenders /or the work of carrying out the es.me. HOSPITAL BOARD. A meeting of lh:> committee of the Hospital Board was then bold, when there were prereiit— Messrs Kobin (cWraiau), Hardy, Snow, Mousnu, and Iflgher. A requisition for £475 18s 7d was p&sssd for payment. A letter was received asking for £350 an part payment of a. aum of £700 pasted bp order of the board on account of the new lanndrj.—lt wj»s resolved to pay the amount ask'jd for. — There is vo woman in the land so bad an arithmetician that she could noi caU-ii'iiiu bow much her husband would save if he did not smoke. — Habbi Woifers, the Jewish musical historian, says that durini; divine service at the an-jieut Temp'e of Jerusalem a full choir consisted of 24,000 nipi:i, divided into three great bauds'audseimr.itsd oniifrom another upon vast ! platforms. This cuoir was composed if Levites, ' who had no oth'-.r duties to pr-rform, (inn v.vrn I:;is cu*ji-. tl 0 c.i...i' 1:1; ■ nliulc wi tti.iL11.vie ' to thQ perfection of their art,