APRIL 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1115

TABLE XIII.
………Hospital Board.
DETAILS OF ADMINISTRATION EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 19 .

1. Board’s and officers’ travelling-expenses, &c. (including delegate’s expenses to conferences) £ s. d.
2. Chairman’s honorarium .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
3. Secretary’s and assistant’s salaries.. .. .. .. .. .. ..
4. Office rent .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
5. Office cleaning, light, and heating .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
6. Office printing and stationery .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
7. Postage, telegrams, and telephone .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
8. Advertising .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
9. Audit fees .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
10. Legal expenses .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
11. Bank charges (e.g., cheque-books and exchange, but not interest) .. .. .. ..
12. Hospital Boards Association subscription .. .. .. .. .. ..
13. Valuation fee .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
14. Sundries (principal items)—

Total (to agree with item 6 of expenditure portion of Income and Expenditure Table) £__

N.B.—Where separate information to complete details above is not available, an approximate allocation should be made.

TABLE XIV.
………Hospital Board.
CHARITABLE RELIEF RETURNS.

NOTES :—
(1.) In the three attached tables the number of cases represents not the number of applicants for relief, but the number to whom relief is given.
(2.) The number of cases and number of persons affected include the number carried forward from the previous year, which are treated as if they were fresh applicants on the first day of the year under review.
(3.) Should relief be given more than once during the year—i.e., should it be discontinued and fresh application subsequently be made and granted—the case should not be counted again as a fresh case, as to do so would be to give a misleading idea of the number of families receiving relief in the district during the year.

(a.) CAUSES OF POVERTY OF PERSONS TO WHOM RELIEF GRANTED DURING YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 19 .

Cause of Poverty. Number of Cases. Number of Persons affected.

1. Death of breadwinner .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
2. Imprisonment of breadwinner .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
3. Desertion of breadwinner .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
4. Voluntary unemployment of employable breadwinner .. .. .. ..
5. Involuntary unemployment of employable breadwinner .. .. .. ..
6. Wages of employable breadwinner insufficient to maintain family .. .. .. ..
7. Breadwinner unemployable or wages insufficient through—
   (a.) Old age .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
   (b.) Physical infirmity, temporary .. .. .. .. .. ..
   (c.) Physical infirmity, permanent .. .. .. .. .. ..
   (d.) Mental deficiency or insanity .. .. .. .. .. ..
8. Cases not coming within any of the above definitions .. .. .. ..

Total (to agree with totals in Table (b) ) .. .. .. .. ..

Causes of Distress.
(a.) The causes in Table (a) represent the immediate rather than the remote cause—e.g., imprisonment may be due to drink, but imprisonment is the immediate cause.
(b.) Where there is more than one cause the main rather than the contributory cause should be given, and cases only placed under No. 8 where they cannot fairly be placed under any of the other headings.
(c.) Illegitimate maternity, if a cause, could well and charitably come under 5, 6, or 7 (b), as the case may be, as regards the mother, or possibly under 3 as regards the father.
(d.) The cause of poverty is not necessarily the same from year to year—e.g., death of breadwinner might be the cause of the first application, but on the second occasion the cause might be more properly found under 4, 5, 6, or 7, some other member of the family group having become the breadwinner but having failed through one of these causes.

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