The Secretary of the Treasury wrote, hop ing the Board would see the propriety of making some allowance to old age pension ers in its institutions. It had been replied that a motion proposing to make an allow ance of Is per week had been withdrawn.- It was decided to reply to the Wanganui Charitable Aid Board, that the Board could not see its Avay to support the proposal to approach the Government in the direction of a rebate of duty on tobacco for use in charit able institutions. It was decided to reply to the Lands and Survey Department that- the Board had no further use for certain buildings at East Oxford), but would suggest that some por tion of the buildings should be available for the use of swaggers. It was resolved that the Board could not consider the question of paying the contrac tor at Ashburton the difference between the price he was now paying .for coal compared with the cost of coal at the time the con traob was made. The committee appointed to consider the question of illegitimacy reported:—That they were not prepared to offer any distinct recommendation as to endeavouring to trace the paternity of -legitimate children, seeing that the matter is one for the Legislature

to deal with, if the present law is held! t£> be defective in that respect; that, with re gard to the parents of illegitimates, there, should be suggested to the Government the advisabl-ness of reconsidering the provisions of the existing laws, with a, view to such parents being required to meet their, proper responsibilities; that, though the boarding out of children in carefully-selected private homes had proved generally satisfactory, the committee was of opinion that the Board might consider the advisabl-ness of an ex periment being tried in th© direction of a Cottage Homo under -pecially-qualified management. In moving .the-.x-d_xpt-ipn of -the report,.the Chairman said several suggestions had been ; "made* by the members of the committee with respect to the.tracing of the parents of file- ] .children), tint none had been ac-'j cepted by the majority of the committee.'. Mr Sorensen said .that with respect <to j these suggestions, the committee had been equally dividled, and the Chairman's casting; vote had decided 1 Against, them. 