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2. That the junior Clerk, George H. King, be appointed second
clerk in the office of the department at a commencing salary
of £50 per annum, with an annual increase of £5 to a
maximum of £100, the first increase to take place from the
1st January, 1886.
3. That the Messenger, Frederick William Saffrey, be appointed
third clerk in the office of the department at a commencing
salary of £40 per annum, with an annual increase of £5 to a
maximum of £80, the first increase to take place from the 1st
January, 1886.
4. That the Committee be authorised to appoint a junior clerk, at
10s. per week, with an annual increase of 2s. to a maximum
of £1 per week; and also a messenger in the place of
Frederick William Saffrey upon the usual terms of 8s. per
week and uniform, with an annual increase of Is., to a
maximum of 12s. per week.
5. That the salaries of the permanent inspectors, Messrs. James
Burney Pain, George West, James Jarvis Jordan, and Charles
Turle Wilson, be increased from 40s. by an annual increase of
5s. per week to a maximum of 50s., the first increase to take
effect from 1st January, 1886.
6. That the salary of the clerk, Mr. Alfred Canter, be increased
from 20s. to 25s. per week from the 1st January, 1886.
Your Committee have felt that their report would be incomplete
unless they dealt with the salary of your Sanitary Superintendent, Mr.
Collingwood, who has been receiving, since 1880, £4 per week.
Having regard to the large increase in the work of the Sanitary
Department of late years, which has involved Mr. Collingwood either
staying after office hours or taking work home with him, without
receiving extra remuneration, and to the additional work and
responsibility that must of necessity result from the suggested reorganisation
of the department, your Committee have unanimously
resolved to recommend the Vestry:—
7. That the salary of the Sanitary Superintendent (Mr. Colling-