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Of the Members who ceased to be qualified in consequence
of having left the District, the name of Mr.
Francis Smith as an old Member of the Board deserves
special mention.
Mr. Francis Smith had been for many years a Member
of the Board. At the last meeting which he attended
and took leave of his colleagues, the following resolution
was passed:— "Resolved unanimously that the Board
have received with sincere regret, the intelligence
that they are about to lose the services of their colleague
Mr. Francis Smith who has been for over 20 years a
Member of the Board, and they desire to tender to him and
to place upon record their high appreciation of the manner
in which he has discharged his duties."
Of the Members who were not re-elected the name of
Mr. Charles Fitz-Roy Doll must be mentioned, he having
been an active Member, and for two years filled the Chair of
the Works Committee. This report would, however, be incomplete
if it did not specially refer to the case of Mr.
William Henry Hewitt, who at the time of his ceasing to
be a Member was the "father of the Board," he having
been a Member ever since its constitution in the year 1856,
and being at the date of his retirement the only Member
who had sat continuously on the Board. Mr. Hewitt has
rendered valuable services to the District, and for 3 years
represented it at the Metropolitan Board of Works.
At a meeting of the Board held on the 9th January, 1894,
intelligence was received of the death of Mr. Henry
Gaisford Gotto, who had been for many years a Member,
when the following resolution was passed:—