ST SAVIOUR'S HOME.
MAINTENANCE OF DESTITUTEMEN. CHARITABLE AID BOARD'S DECISION. At the meeting of the Charitable .Aid .Ihard yesterday afternoon, a deputation consisting 1 of Sister Frances, Messrs C. H. Bridge and H. D. Carter waited on the Board in regard to St Saviour's Home. Mr Bridge explained that the St Saviours' Guild considered itself entitled . to some sort of agreement with the Board as regarded the latter's contribution, as the Board might possibly refuse to grant them anything at all next year. As it was, the Home would probably have to discharge some twelve destitute men, whose only crime was poverty. Still the Home was willing to maintain all or any of these men, provided the Board could see its way to pay 6s per week each for maintenance. Sister Frances remarked that there were sixteen such men in the Home at present. In reply to a question ' by Mr ActonAdams, Mr Bridge said, that these men were all aged, mostly between sixty and seventy, and mostly incompetent as far as work was concerned. . : The Chairman pointed oivt that it did not necessarily follow that, because St Saviour's Home discharged' these men, they would come to the Board. With respect to the cutting down of the grant, che Board was never in a position to say how muchiit would give for a year until members had seen the estimates. "With regard to the prison class, people who did behave themselves well enough to be kept out of sraol ought to have the first consideration. Sister Frances said the Home did not take these people from the gaol, but from the gutters, and from the parks, where they were a standing menace to others. The Home did not look after these people for thpir OTvh sakes, but for the sake of the public. ■_ ■ ' % Mr Bridge further explained that they did not wish to turn these destitute people loose without doing all in their power to get other help for them. The deputation then withdrew. The following resolution, proposed by Mr Acton-Adams and seconded by Mr Chalmers, was then carried — "That, as the division of responsibility weakens control, it is desirable for the Board to take entire charge of indigent men. The Board empowers the committee, if it so deems necessary, to pay the Samaritan Home rit the rate of (5s a head per week for such men patients as the committee may approve of." \ '
ST SAVIOUR'S HOME.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 5871, 13 May 1897, Page 2
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