THE OHIRO HOME.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2542, 1 July 1909, Page 5

THE OHIRO HOME.

APPLICANTS FOR RELIEF. (Per Press Association.' WELLINGTON, June 30. Reporting on the casual or intermediate ward of the Ohiro Home, the master of the Home (Mr. A. H. Truebridge) informed the Benevolent Institute that fourteen able-bodied men had applied for relief. There were nine firemen, two bushmen, one male nurse, one engine-driver, and one wharf laborer. “Nearly all the fiTemen,” said Mr. Trucbridge, “had wives and children in the Old Country, for whoso support they impoverished themselves; or widowed mothers in England, of whom' they were the sole support.” Mr. Robertson: Did you believe that? Mr. Trucbridge: What could I do when nine-men told me the same story? Mr. Robertson: I would not have accepted that story. Mr. Trucbridge: Most of them had either been robbed, of their clothes, or left them on a sliip which had unaccountably gone off without them. Mr. Robinson: Did you believe that, too ? Mr. Truebridge,: They all told me the s&me story. There were six applicants who gave a most unsatisfactory account of themselves (and two admitted having squandered their money. Three applicants were sent to the intermediate ward and failed to go. One was sent to the labor bureau,*, and failed to return. Five had their necessities entirely satisfied by two meals and a bed at the Salvation Army, and failed to return next day, as told to do, for further enquiry and relief. One brought back his order to the intermediate-ward, two days after the date, with the envelope opened, and four went to the intermediate ward.