The Hokitika Benevolent Society was incorporated in the year 1886, and has its offices in Tancred Street. Meetings of the trustees are held the third Tuesday in each month at the County Council Chambers. The voluntary contributions to the society are never less than £100 per annum, and on that sum a Government subsidy of twenty-four shillings per pound is received. Trustees for the year 1905: Messrs W. Duncan (chairman), J. Toomey, J. Tait, J. Mandl, T. J. McGuigan, Dr. H. Macandrew, the Rev. W. J. Elliott, H. G. Hawkins, W. Douglas, the Very Rev. Dean A. P. Martin, and Sergeant W. Folley. Mr. H. H. Halliday is secretary.