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sent to the Central Office (No. 34, Brunswick Square) for the Executive
Committee to deal with.
At this meeting volunteers were called for, to act as
Secretaries to the Local Committees, and Mr. R. J. Somers
was appointed Honorary Secretary to the Central Committee.
The members of the Central Committee were distributed as
follows, upon the basis of the nine districts of the Poor Law,
viz.:—
Members of the District Committees,
District No. 1. Mr. A. Foster, Mr. W.Jackson, Councillors W.
Mills, J. Shrimpton and Rev. H. G. Veazey.
District No. 2. Mrs. L. M. Bale, Mr. R. A. Bray, L.C.C.,
Councillor Rev. W. J. Conybeare, Mrs. Hichisson, Mr. J. Steer and
Councillor J. J. Westoby.
District No. 3. Mr. J. P. Byrne, Mr. T. A. Kelly, Councillors A.
Lucas and W. MacCarthy and Rev. W. Pheasant.
District No. 4. Councillor Duncan Bell, Mr. W. J. Bigwood,
Mr. Bollen, Rev. G. Carter, Councillor J. George, Rev. P. S. O'Brien
and Councillor J. Price.
District No. 5. Councillors J. W. Briginshaw, J. E. Gregory
Mr. Jardine, Mr. W. Monks, Mr. R. J. Somers and Councillor W.
St. Cedd.
District No. 6. Councillor M. Boxall, Rev. A. G. Deedes,
Mr. J. Flynn, Councillor E. Gauntlett, Mr. Evan Griffiths, Rev. Canon
W. Murnane, Councillor A. O'Neill and Rev. F. D. Vaughan.
District No. 7. Rev. Father Alphonsus, Mr. W. B. Hurst,
Councillor D. J. Jordan, Mr. J. Messent and Councillor A. T. Moore.
District No. 8. Mr. J. Cochrane, Mr. J. N. Collins, Mr. Cook,
Councillors H. Line and J. Nisbet and Miss E. E. Sanders.
District No. 9. Mr. R. Brown, Rev. A. Eglington. Councillor
S. S. Holt, Mr. J. Marsh, Mrs. M. Moore, Councillor Stanley Moore,
Rev. Howard Nixon, Mr. G. Parker, Mr. M. Teesdale and Councillor
Lorraine Wilson.
Executive
Committee.
Executive Committee, The Executive Committee consisted of a representative
from each of the nine Poor Law districts, together
with The Worshipful the Mayor of Camberwell, the Chairman
of the Board of Guardians and the Honorary Secretary. The
Town Clerk and the Clerk to the Board of Guardians sat as
ex-officio members.
It was decided that the Committee should commence
work as soon as centres could be found and Honorary
Secretaries selected; further, that a private appeal for subscriptions
should be issued to the leading employers of labour
in the district.