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ratepayers. Messrs. John Henry Burlingson and Thomas
Davies have died. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward James Gardener,
Mr. Benjamin Bennett, and Mr. Felix Weiss have
resigned. Mr. Burlingson and Mr. Davies were both active
members of the Board and its Committees. The resignation
of Mr. Bennett and Mr. Weiss were in consequence of their
having left the District, while Lieutenant-Colonel Gardener
resigned his seat.
The vacancies caused by these deaths and resignations
were all filled up.
The fear which was expressed in the last Report that a
still further number of gentlemen who have been members
for many years are likely to vacate their seats seems only
too well founded, for intimations are already to hand that
there will be several vacancies at the ensuing election.
Accounts.
The accounts of the Board's receipts and expenditure have
been prepared in the same form as on previous occasions.
Mr. T. P. Scrivener, the Board's Chartered Accountant, has
regularly examined the books of the Board, and the annual
statements have been submitted to the Auditors elected, by
whom they have been certified as correct, as appears by their
certificate at the end of the accounts, which will be found
on pages 22 to 37 of this Report.
The St. Giles Churchyard.
In the last Report the progress that had been made with
a view to the laying out and opening to the public of the
disused burial ground adjoining the St. Giles Church was
referred to, and it is only now necessary to state that on