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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 340, 20 August 1889, Page 2

WHAT PUBLICITY WILL DO. Tub advantage of giving publicity to the proceedings of our local bodies, and to the business of the Charitable Aid Board, has been exemplified in a remarkable way. At the last meeting of the Board the Secretary (Mr McKay) directed attention to the case of a man named Carr, for whose maintenance the Auckland Board had sent in a further claim of over JJIO, There was a doubt as to whether the Gisborne Board was bound to continue these payments—over .£l2 had already been paid —but there was no actual proof that the man had not been in the district for six months. After our report appeared on Saturday morning, a good deal of information was supplied to Mr McKay, and the following conclusive evidence was given by Mrs DeCosta, proprietress of the Turanganui Hotel:—“Mr Edward Carr arrived from Napier on Oct. 30, 1887. Mr Blair paid me a week's board for him. He then left on Novemboi' 2nd to go up country with some native friends. He again stayed at my hole!, for one night only, on January 21st, 1888, and sailed for Auckland on January 22nd.” That evidence will prevent this district being taxed to the extent of about £2O a year. We are not prepared to say whether or not Carr’s case is a deserving one, but we knew, by the proof given by the Auckland Press, that the dispensation of “charitable” aid is notin that district so closely watched as it is in Gisborne, and it is not, even if necessary so to do, a satisfactory thing to be paying away money when we have no knowledge as to the cases that are being treated. It is a hard enough burden upon us to maintain those unfortunate people who legitimately belong to the district, and who are in need of aid.