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Resolved:—That the following form the Special Committee:—
Messrs. Coote, Fosten, Castle, Cubbon, O'Neill, Relph,
Ramsey, Beal, Kennedy, Preston, Coward and Wallace.
A special meeting of the Vestry was held on March
22nd, 1893, to receive a report from this Special Committee
as to the method of carrying out the work of the Public
Health Committee in future, and to vary, alter, or rescind
the resolutions of the Vestry passed on the 17th day of
February, 1893, appointing the various standing Committees
of the Vestry so far as they relate to the appointment and
duties of the Public Health Committee, and also the number
of members of the General Purposes Committee and
Finance Committee.
The following were the recommendations:—1. That
the Public Health Committee, as at present constituted, be
abolished, and that the resolution of the Yestry of 17th
February, 1892, and By-laws appointing same and also fixing
the number of members of the General Purposes Committee
and Finance Committee, be rescinded accordingly.
2. That, in lieu of the present Public Health Committee,
two Standing Committees be appointed, one to be
called the Sewers and Sanitary (Public Health) Committee,
and the other the Plant and Scavenging (Public Health)
Committee.
3. That the members of the two existing Sub-Committees
(i.e., the Sewers and Sanitary Sub-Committee and
the Plant and Scavenging Sub-Committee) of the Public
Health Committee, form the Standing Committees until