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The following amounts were paid for labour during Labour.
the year:—
Foreman (Mr. Stone) £130 0 0
Storekeeper (Mr. Rutty) 93 0 0
Yardman 116 7 3
Paviors 178 11 0
Masons 187 1 5
Bricklayer and Labourer (additional for
building Urinal, &c.) 10 8 3
Sower men 541 3 6
Carmen 173 15 3
Road men and Labourers 789 5 4
Stone-breaking 80 0 0
Tying trees, &c. 4 9 2
Scavengers (including SundayScavenging 1454 5 3
Watchmen 88 16 0
Sanitary Department—pailmen and
infecting 685 3 6
Allowances to men during illness 12 10 0
Contributions to Sick, Burial and Benefit
Fund 61 17 0
£4609 12 11
being £37 less than last year.
During the strike of Dock Labourers, the men employed
by the contractors for scavenging and removing
dust, struck work. Although the Vestry was in vacation,
a meeting of the Works' Committee was hastily
summoned, and the Committee met daily until the
difficulty was over.
Shortly afterwards the scavengers employed by the
Vestry sent in a memorial asking for higher wages;
the whole question of the labour employed by the
Vestry was then carefully considered by the Committee
and the Committee reported to the Vestry recommending
that the wages of each of the road sweepers then
receiving 20s. weekly, should be increased to 21s.
weekly, also that a Sick, Burial and Benefit Fund for