BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION TRUSTEES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10421, 25 July 1895, Page 4

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION TRUSTEES.

The weekly meeting of the Benevolent Institution Trustees was held yesterday afternoon, and yras attended by Messrs Chisholm (chairman), Haynes, Solcmos, and Swan.

Accounts amounting to £519 3s sd, inclusive of £423 for the relief works, were passed for payment.

The cost cf the institution for June was £320 15s sa, the number of the pmates being 272, and the cost per head per Week 5s 6d. The cost for the previous month was 4s lOid per head per week.

The local agent for tbe Public Trust department wroto concerning a claim by the trustees against the estate of a deceased person for maintenance of children, and enclosed a letter from the solicitor to the Public Trust Office, Wellington, stating that be conld not sac his way to admit the ciaiai. The-deceased intestate (a woman) hsd died on December 12, 1880, and the money was dealt with under the law of that dale, which was tbat the husband had nT right te the whole estate. He had been mining 15 years, but this was far. too short a time to dc&l with the money a:; if he wero dead. If the. joungent child w.'.s still in the asylum ife was uossible that the secretary could see bis way to get an order made en the Pnblic Trustee, under tho provisions of sectiou 39 of "The Destitute Persons Act 1884," bnt the writer could not advise any voluntary acknowledgment ou the part of the Public Trustee, the mother having died before the claim commenced to exist.—The chairman and secretary to Luke action under this act if it was practicable to do so. Mr J. Wilkinson, secretary of the China Inland Mission, wrote asking that two ladie*, who intended to engage in mission work in India, might be allowed to attend the maternity cases at the institution.—No objection being apparent, the application wss granted. About 10 relief cases were dealt witK.