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be successful, they will consider next Season the desirability of
setting apart certain times for Ladies.
GENERAL.
We seem this year to have been troubled more than usual with
the drain botcher, I can coin no better word. It appears to me
some people think anyone can reconstruct a drain, and I trust the
day will come when all men engaged in drain work will have to
prove their capability.
I can only think this class ot workmen are engaged through
ignorance, it cannot be cheapness, for in two instances we have had
to have the drains pulled up their entire length and reconstructed
a second time; unfortunately this class of men will not or cannot
be taught, and the time expended superintending the work where
these men are employed is almost incredible.
I have to record that Mr. Ainley (one of the Assistant
Inspectors) who came to us from Huddersfield on the 5th November,
1906, resigned on the 31st May, going back to Huddersfield to take
up duty as a District Inspector.
On the 24th July, Mr. Stanbury was appointed to the vacancy.
He has had experience in several Districts, and came to us with
splendid Testimonials from Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
The change of office and reorganisation of the Department
referred to in my last Report has resulted in the work being
carried on with that smoothness which characterises all well
organised machinery, and although the clerical work in the shape
of Reports for Committees, Accounts, &c., has been increased there
is no diminution in the outside work of the Department, and I find
upon looking through Reports for several years back that the
amount of work done appears to be much the same year by year,
pointing to the fact that it is not rushed one year and missed
the next.