CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2152, 23 May 1895, Page 5

CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Tho regular monthly meeting of the come raittee of tho Charitable Aid Board was held on Thursday affcemoou, and was attended by Messrs Robin (chairman), Miller, Green, Snow, and Monson. The claim from the Beaevolent Institution for the month was £931 12s 2d, and au interim payment of £500 having been made it was decided to pass the balance for payment. The requisition from the Female Refuge was £3, and this was also pissed for payment. The Patea and Wanganui Charitable Aid Board forwarded a circular agkfog the boardS co-oporalion in getting section 74, df " Tna Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act 1855/' dealing with destitute persons going front beyond the contributing districts to which they' belonged, amended.— Secretary to acknowledge thQ communication, and inform the board that the matter would have attention. The South Dunedin Council forwarded a copy of the resolution refusing to contribute ! further to the charitable aid fund, passed at last meeting of the council.— Received, the secretary tk> write & hope that tad copnoil would not carry o,ut the threat coi£ tamed in the resolution, as it would necessitate the board taking action whloh they wished to avoid. The annual draft report was laid upon the table, and contained, inter alia, a comparison of es'.imates from the various bodies efiowin£ that for the current year there was an increase of £500 in the estimates of the Benevolent Institution, £294 in the Caversham jEnduitrial School, £100 in Sb. Mary's School, £10 in the Burnham School, and a decrease in the estimates of tho Auckland School of £40. The bo&rd's expenses for each of the two yesra were the same — namely, £125. Iv connection with the foregoing the following arnounta had been paid last year in excess of the estimates, thereby making the increases less as regards actual payment ;— Benevolent Institution, £229 ; Caversbairi School, £248; St. Mary's School, £49; Burnham School, £3. The net increase in tho estimates totals £864, against which tberft is the deorease of £40.