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desires to record the valuable services of John Grummant, Esq.,
during twenty-one years, as the representative of St. George's
(No. 1) Ward, and as Chairman of the Assessment, Depot, and
Fodder Committees, as Vice-Chairman of the General Purposes
Committee, and as an Overseer of the Poor, in all of which offices
he afforded valuable assistance in the administration of the affairs
of the Parish in the interests of the Ratepayers; and the Vestry
trusts that his retirement from public life will be followed by his
restoration to perfect health, and the fullest enjoyment of the
leisure he has so well earned." The terms of the Resolution were
also unanimously ordered to be engrossed on vellum and
presented to Mr. Grummant.
Illness of
Mr. A.
Middlemass
The serious illness of Mr. A. Middlemass, the Chair-
man of the General Purposes Committee, and his
happy restoration to health, though coming partly within the
period embraced by this Report, were chronicled last year.
Illness of Mr.
J. C. Rey-
nilds.
It is my grateful duty also to note from the records
Vestry, the entire recovery of Mr. Reynolds,
the Surveyor, from an equally serious and threatening illness,
which attacked him in the Winter of 1886. It was reported by
the Chairman, on the 3rd of November, that Mr. Reynolds was
steadily regaining his strength, and shortly afterwards he was
enabled again to resume his duties.
Death of
Mr. Donald
Fraser
In completion of this section of my Report, I have to
notice the death, which was reported to the Vestry
on the 5th of January, of Mr. Donald Fraser, the Superintendent
of the Dust Collection, who for many years had served the Vestry, in
various capacities, with conscientious ability. He was attending
to his duties, so far as his precarious health enabled him, until
the morning of the day on which he died.