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REPORT.
Following the practice of former years the Vestry beg, in the Meetings,
first place, to give a comparative statement of the number of meetings
of Committees and of the Vestry, and of the number of
members attending the same during the past year and the previous
three years. It as follows:—
MEETINGS.
YEARS.
1877 - 8.
1878- 9.
1879 -80.
1880- 81.
Vestry
22
20
25
23
Standing Committees
90
89
93
111.
Special „
48
57
28
14
Totals
160
166
146
148
Largest Attendance at any
"Vestry Meeting
73
69
71
70
Smallest ,,
46
35
29
32
Average Attendance
58
54.6
49.6
48.2
It will be observed that the number of meetings of the Standing
Committees has increased. This is owing to the Horse Hire
Committee having been made a Standing Committee under the
style of the "Dusting and Cleansing Committee." The return of
meetings does not include the weekly meetings of the rota
Committee of the Dusting, &c., Committee.
The Vestry have with regret to record the deaths of several Deaths,
persons who were well known in the Hamlet, and who had taken
considerable interest in the Parochial work, viz.: Messrs. Head,
W. F. Jackson, Ellis, Iron and Jutsum.
Mr. Carter, the Foreman of Laborers, also died at the advanced
age of 87 years, having been in the uninterrupted employ of the
Vestry and their predecessors in office since the year 1815.