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REPORT.
The Vestry, in presenting their Annual Report for
the year ending 25th March, 1879, beg to follow the
practice of former years, and present a comparison
between the number of Meetings, and the attendances
thereat, during the last twelve months, and those of
the three preceding years:
Meetings.
Years.
1875—6.
1876-7.
1877—8.
1878-9.
Vestry
21
23
22
20
Standing Committees
77
76
90
89
Special Committees
2
21
48
57
Tofals
100
120
160
166
Largest attendance
at any Vestry
Meeting
62
83
73
69
Smallest ditto
42
43
46
35
Average attendance
50.5
59.2
58
54.6
Some of the Committees have sub-Committees, to
go into detail work, and report to the Committee
thereon; and the Meetings of the sub-Committees are
nof taken into account in the foregoing statement.
In the early part of this year the Vestry formed
itself into a Committee to consider the duties and emoluments
of its various officers, and after a very lengthy
and searching enquiry, the Vestry were of opinion that
the duties in many departments had greatly increased
during the last seven years, and accordingly resolved
to increase the salaries of the Clerk and Surveyor £100
each, of the Assistant Clerk £50, and of the Inspector
of Nuisances £40, such increases to commence from
the 25th March, 1879.