The Ashburton And North Canterbury United Charitable Aid Board. Members are elected annually, in November, to represent the several counties of Selwyn, Ashburton, Amuri, Cheviot, Kaikoura, and Akaroa, and the read districts in Ashley county; also the boroughs of Akaroa, Christchurch, Kaiapoi, Linwood, Lyttelton, New Brighton, Rangiora, St. Albans, Sumner, Sydenham, and Woolston. The Board, which was constituted in 1885 under the Hospital and Charitable Aid Institutions Act, maintains the following establishments: Ashburton Old Men's Home, Queen's Jubilee Memorial Home at Woolston, Lyttelton Orphanage, Female Refuge at Linwood, and the Armagh Street Depot. It is also entrusted with the distribution of outdoor relief throughout the entire district, within which it has power to make levies, for charitable aid purposes upon the various county councils, boroughs, and other local governing bodies. The average expenditure on charitable aid, exclusive of hospitals, on account of which separate rates are levied, is from £13,000 to £14,000 per annum. The office of the board is situated in Armagh Street, Christchurch.