EVERITT BENEFIT FUND

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2397, 12 January 1909, Page 6

EVERITT BENEFIT FUND

[To tub Editor/)

iSir,— — I 'l’lie explanation tendered by tbo trustees of tbo Even It Benefit Fund, published in your paper on Saturday last, is satisfactory up to a certain point, but beyond tlu*t is very piucli the reverse. 1 presume tbe three gentlemen who signed the letter as trustees have some little knowledge of property values in this district. Did they think, in the first ease, that CRO 10, was going to buy a bouse and section, or even pay half of the cost? If such was their idea then' they, and not f, must find it iicccSKfi rv to i 'col-iucf ’tlicjir .senttou’n thoughts.” I fjiiid all interested in the matter) am glad that the trustees are doing something by looking out for a cheap property jbut what is happening in the meantime, wlilist these who have plenty of clothos and plenty to eat, are wandering tip and down the town making inquiries, interviewing (agents, and generally wasting their own time? T say what is happening to the widow and her family of t.alf-cTotbed children jhe miblic did not give the nmount -co hooted with the specific object of buying land - it was given by those generously disposed to help a. woman who was in distress, and tins has not been done. The trustees seem to be somewhat overcome by the onerous duties entailed by their stewardship, and thev have certainly lost sight of tin. prime rv far! of the benefit-—to help where hell) was needed. Ihe mom , has been locked up lor many months now. and if Messrs Ensor A\el>h, and Bo’len do their duty to Mrs. Lvenfl and the public, whose representatives they are. they will forthwith pay over the' amount collected. I *hou ciienesl to the gentlemen who hold the trusteeship that if they do not like to pirt with the whole amountfor auv particular reason, that tin t pnv Mrs Evcritt sav £2O every month or'everv two months, until she has received the whole amount. lo give an open order on any firm to a mother who surely has her children s inteie.M at heart, is simply to insult her. ami anv woman with spirit would reject, it 'much as Airs. Evcritt appears to h;£ve done. As for the trustees boasted rosponsibUty to the public, it should have censed long ago when the hiOney was all in hand, at winch time a receipt -should have been received from Mrs. Evcritt and tin* matter concluded. — I mm, etc.-, “SYMPATHISER.”