One of the witnesses in the cruelty to animals yesterday, said he had not told the owner qr the person who had charge of the aqimal of the state she was in, because he thought he would be insulted and told to mind his own business !
The provisions in reference to hospitals and charitable aid will be embodied in two distinct bills, instead of being lumped together in one measure as at present. Both will be framed on the lines indicated by the Premier in his Hawera speech, and both will be based on the same main principle. The intention is to simplify administration, to vest it more in local bodies than at present, aud to adopt the system of subsidising in proportion to the number of cases dealt with—of patients ill the one instance and of paupers in the other—and not merely in proportion to the sums raised locally by subscription or otherwise. The pauper farm scheme has been referred tq before,’ as has also the proposal to oharge on the Consolidated Fund certain specified cases of hopeless pauperism'—N. Z. Times.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 299, 16 May 1889, Page 3
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182Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 299, 16 May 1889, Page 3
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