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* Replaced Geo. Skinner (who was found unsuitable for the service).
The duties hereinbefore detailed, together with the numerous Statistical Returns,
Statements of Account, Minuting work and Agendas and Reports which are now so
constantly required, and the continuous Audit of the Finances necessitate that this
assistance should be made permanent, and I therefore
Recommend'.—(1) That the temporary Clerks, Messrs. Fawcett and Trebilcock,
be placed upon the permanent staff of the Vestry as Clerks in the Accountant's
Department, and that they be required to devote the whole of their time to the
duties assigned to them.
It will be necessary to engage the services of an Oflice Youth (preferably one
who has had previous office experience) to assist in the general routine work of the
department, e. copying letters and statements, indexing and filing, messages,
pasting away invoices, receipts and cheques, &c., and I therefore
Recommend (2) Your Committee to appoint an office youth in this Department.
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Should your Committee adopt these suggestions, I should be able to re-arrange
the duties of each member of the Staff, inter alia, making provision for the carrying
out of the order of the Vestry whereby owners of property are now required to make
half-yearly returns of inhabitant occupiers, entailing the examination and correction
of nearly 8,000 assessments, the work of the Valuation List Committee and other
general business of the Department—thus enabling the multifarious duties of this
office to be discharged with greater efficiency and despatch.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
ERNST A. R. ADAMS,
Accountant.
Upon this report the Officers Committee made the following recommendations
to the Vestry:—
(1) That this report be received, and that Messrs. Fawcett and Trebilcock
be appointed permanently on the Accountant's staff; that Mr. Fawcett's
salary be at the rate of £105 per annum, rising by biennial increments of £5 to a
maximum of £120 ; that Mr. Trebilcock's salary be at the rate of £95 per annum,
rising by biennial increments of £5 to a maximum of £120 per annum. Your
Committee further recommend
(2) That an office boy be advertised for between the ages of 14 and 16
years, at l()s. per week salary, rising by annual increments of 2s. per week to a
maximum of 18s. per week, so long as he holds that office, and that it be referred to
this Committee to make the appointment.
these recommendations were adopted by the Vestry on the 7th December, 1897.