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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

(c.) Particulars of Outdoor Relief granted during Year ended 31st March, 19 .

*This may be higher than the number of cases in items 1 and 2 of Table (b), as in many cases the person might appear under more than one heading—e.g., “Rent” and “Rations.”

CAUSES OF DISTRESS.—DEFINITION OF CLASSES, ETC.

“Head of family” means—
The father, if he usually resides with his family :
The mother, if the father is deceased or permanently absent :
Adult applicants of either sex without dependants, such as bachelors, spinsters, widowers, or married persons living apart from their families.

“Number of applicants” represents the number of cases which came before the Board ; and “Persons affected” represents the persons on whose behalf the applicant applies—e.g., ten widows apply for relief with an aggregate of thirty children dependent on them—the number of applicants would be ten and the number of persons affected forty.

Selection of “Effective Causes.”—The scale of values of effective causes is deemed to correspond to the order observed in the subjoined list— that is to say, taking the classes in the order given, the first on the list which will apply is to be deemed the effective cause, and all subsequently named classes are thereby eliminated.

Classification.

1. Insanity.—Includes all cases where the head of the family has been adjudged insane. Merely suspected of alleged insanity or mental infirmity is not included.

2. Imprisonment.—Includes all cases where the head of the family is serving a term of imprisonment at the time of the application.

3. Old Age.—Includes all cases where the head of the family, if a male, is sixty-five years of age and upwards, and, if female, of sixty years and upwards, irrespective of any other circumstance except those of Classes 1 and 2.

4. Widowhood.—Includes all cases of widows, with or without dependants, subject to Class 3.

5. Illegitimate Maternity.—Includes all cases of unmarried women having one or more illegitimate children dependent.

6. Desertion.—Includes all cases of married women not coming under Class 3 whose husbands have deserted them or are judicially or mutually separated from them on their initiative.

7. Sickness.—Includes all cases, not being eligible for a preceding class, where the head of the family is disabled from adequately maintaining the dependants (who, in certain cases, will be solely the applicant) through sickness, whether temporary or chronic, and whether the result of accident or otherwise. Mental infirmity is included in this class.

8. Physical Defects.—Includes all cases, not being eligible for a preceding class, where the head of the family is prevented from earning adequate maintenance for the dependants through the loss of one or more limbs, permanent defects of sight or hearing, and deformity, whether congenital or acquired (e.g., as the result of accident or disease).

9. Physical Inefficiency.—Includes all cases, not being eligible for a preceding class, where the head of the family, without exhibiting definite symptoms of acute disease, is physically incapable of competing on equal terms with his fellows in his customary or other employment.

10. Unemployment (Involuntary).—Includes all cases, not being eligible for a preceding class, where the able-bodied head of family is unemployed through bona fide scarcity of work and not through personal deficiency.

11. Unemployment (Voluntary).—Includes all cases, not being eligible for a preceding class, where the able-bodied head of the family is unemployed through habitual or sporadic intemperance, disinclination to work, lack of initiative, love of amusement, or general inefficiency, such as carelessness, irregularity, laziness, or other misconduct when in employ.

12. Indeterminate.—Includes all cases not coming within any of the preceding classes.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.