CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 10

CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

The usual meting of the Charitable Aid Board, held on Thursday, was attended by Messrs J. Robin (chairman), W. Snow, J. Green, J. R. Monson, H. Gourley, P. Miller, H. Clark and W. Owen. REQUISITIONS, The Benevolent Institution Trustees forwarded their requisition for the month of June. The net expenditure for the month ended 31st May was £1092 12s 2d, against which had to be placed moneys received for interest, rent, &c., £120 15s 4d ; contributions, £1 ; Government subsidy, £93 2s sd ; making a total of £214- 17s 9d, leaving £877 14s 5d as the amount claimed. The Chaibman observed that the trustees were under their estimate for the three months by £2 9s 4d. Mr Green remarked that it was gratifying that such was the case, even though the amount was small. So far as his experience as a settler went there were mere persons requiring aid up his way than at any other time he could remember. The requisition was passed. The Female Refuge authorities reported that as the receipts for the past month were £35 10a 2d, and the expenditure £31 14s lOd, they did not make any claim.— The surplus was noted with satisfaction. A CASE FROSI CHRISTCHURCH. A letter was . received from the lady superior of the House of Refuge, Christchurch, with regard to an inmate who had been received from the Magdala Asylum, where she had been brought by her father. The girl came from Dunedia, and the only condition on which she could be retained in the House of Refuge was the payment of £3 entrance fee and 5s a week for six months. * The Chairman observed that at present there was no proof that the girl came from Dunedin. Mr Green remarked that if she had, and had been anywhere else sinee — if she had only slept one night at another place — that, according to Mr Justice Deuniston's decision, sufficed toclear Dunedin from liability for charitable aid. As the chairman had said, there was no proof that the girl ever belonged to Dunedin, and for aught they knew the man who represented himself as the girl's father might have been her betrayer. He (Mr Green) would move—," That the letter be received, and that the committee were of opinion that the information contained therein was not sufficient to justify them in undertaking the responsibility." The motion was carried.