CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10362, 17 May 1895, Page 3

CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The regular monthly meeting of tins com-1 mittea of the Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday afternoon, and was' attended by Measrs Robin (chairman), Miller, Green, Snow, a-nd Monsou. . . ; The claim from the Benevolent Institution for the month was £93112s 2d, and an interim payment of £500 having been made it was decider] to pass the balance for payment. The requisition from the Female Refuge waß £6, and this was also passed for payment. Tho Pafcea and Wanganui Gharitabla Aid Board forwarded a circular a«kiDg the board's co-oparation in getting oecl-.ion 71, of " Tho Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act 1885," dealing with ue.ititute persons going from beyoud the contributing districts to which they belonged, amended —Secretary to. acknowledge th». communication, and inform the board that 1 the matter vrould have attention. | j The South Dunedin Council forwarded a < copy of the resolution refusiug to contribute further to' the charitable aid fund, passed at last meeting of the council.—Received, the secretary to write expressing a hope that the council^ would not carry out the threat contained in the resolution, as ifc would necessitate the board taking action which they wished to avoid. The annual draft report was laid upon tho tablo, and contained, inter alia, a comparison of estimates troro the varioun bodies showing thaWor the current year there was an increase ■of £500 id the estimates of the Benevolent Institution, £294 ir, tha Cavershaua li.du^rfa.l Hcuool, £100 in St. Mary's School, £10 in thu Burnham School, and a decrease in the entimttes- of tho Auckland School of' £10 The boa.rd'B expenses for each of tie two years wero the saroo — nami ly, £125. In connection with the foregoing tritfollowing uuiouutb had been paid last yta? iv exces* of the estimates, thsreby making the iocroafiea leas as regards actual payment :— Bunevolens, .lEstitution, £228; C»versh<j.m School, £2*B; St. Mary's School, £49; Burnham School, £3. The net increase in the Mtimatei) totals. £864, against which there >« thcdeorea&a of £40.