CHARITABLE AID.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9222, 29 April 1908, Page 2

CHARITABLE AID.

♦ HELPING THE NEEDY. £Pbb Pkess Association.! WELLINGTON, April 28. Miss Kirk made a report to-day to the Wellington and Wairarapa Charitable Aid Board on investigations made throughout the district into the circumstances of people in receipt of assistance. Some of the cases are surprising, for example: — / A country married man with four children; family alleged to be extravagant, one girl getting rolled gold spectacles and a boy a bicycle costing £4 to deliver papers; rent paid, with rations. Recommendation that the rent be struck. off. A Wellington suburb woman with three children; weekly income £2 Bs. "This case," remarks Miss Kirk, "is rather unusual, because, in addition to the income mentioned, the recipient is receiving £2 10s interest a quarter on a sum left by her husband, which will give the children £60 or £70 a year when they are of age." Recommendation that the grant be reduced from 10s to ss. A Wellington suburb house, in which the recipients live, is their own, worth £830, subject to a small mortgage. Recommendation that the grant of 10s a week should cease. Country recipients, oldest son bwenty-two, another married, three ?irls at work ; property free from debt ; receiving 10s a weeE. They have had 2261 bof sugar and 1751 bof flour in three months, and do not make their >wn bread. Recommendation that the ;rant. should cease. A Wellington suburb recipient, with 'our children; boarders; income. £7 4s 1 week. Recommendation that for the present the rent grant of 5s a week ihould cease.