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Mr. Hewitt had been a Member of the Board ever
since its constitution in the year 1855, and was
known as the father of the Board. On receiving
the report of his death, which took place on the 21st
September, 1895, the following Resolution was passed:—
"The Board have received with feelings of great regret the
news of the death of their late colleague, William Henry
Hewitt, Esq., and they desire to offer to Mrs. Hewitt and
the members of the late Mr. Hewitt's family their sincere
sympathy in their bereavement, and at the same time to
express how deeply indebted the District is to the late Mr.
Hewitt for the services rendered to it by him with such
success for so many years."
The Work of the Year.
In the succeeding pages a brief summary of the many
varied and important matters which have engaged the
attention of the Board will be reproduced, but in the
limited space at disposal it is quite impossible to convey an
accurate impression of the work carried out; this can alone
be gauged by those who have an intimate acquaintance
with the internal working of the system and by reference to
the bound volumes of Minutes of the Board's proceedings.
At the first meeting of the Board after the election of
Members in June, 1895, George Philip Willoughby, Esq.,
J.P., was re-elected Chairman, a vote of thanks to him for
the manner in which he had discharged the duties of
Chairman during the previous year having been passed at
a Meeting of the Board on the 28th May, 1895.
The result of printing the Minutes of the Meetings of
the Board has continued to give the greatest satisfaction,
and the bound volumes of the year's proceedings facilitate