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contribute his proportion, about one-fourth of the total cost
of such sewers. Your Committee, taking the whole of the
circumstances into consideration
Recommended:—That applicant be informed that the
Vestry is unable to grant his request, such roads not
being sufficiently built upon at present for construction of
sewers.
Sumner Avenue
Nuisance.
Your Committee considered a complaint
received with reference to a nuisance being committed in
Sumner Avenue, Sumner Road, and
Recommended:—That the complainants be informed
that it is a matter with which the Vestry has no power to
deal, and that they be referred to the police.
Peckham Rye
Gully.
The construction of a new outlet drain for
the gully near the King's Arms, Peckham Rye, at an
estimated cost of £3, was recommended by your Committee,
and approved by the Vestry on the 25th May, 1893.
A Memorial from the Vestry Employes was referred
by the Vestry to the General Purposes Committee and
your Committee for consideration and report.
The Memorial stated that the advance which had
taken place in the rate of wages in many of the surrounding
Vestries, and the sense of justice to the memorialists and
their families had made them again approach the Vestry on
a matter to them of great importance. The memorialists
were not unmindful of what had already been done to
improve their position in the past, and trusted that