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7 DECEMBER, 1892. 245
That your Committee considered that any employment
upon which they would be justified in engaging persons,
should be such as your Board usually carried out.
That, after considering numerous suggestions, it seemed to
your Committee that extra labour might advantageously be
engaged in cleansing the streets, and your Committee, "pursuant
to the authority of your Board, instructed your Surveyor
to take on twenty extra hands for that purpose.
That your Board having determined to pave certain
carriageways with portions of the old stone from Ben Jonson
Road and Harford Street, your Committee considered that
others might be employed in excavating the streets to be so
paved, and accordingly instructed your Surveyor to take on
twenty men for the purpose of excavating Clinton Road.
That it also appeared that a portion of the land at Edmonton
is frequently flooded, and that it would be advantageous to
prevent this, and your Committee therefore instructed your
Surveyor to employ some of the Vestry's ordinary workmen
in doing this, and to take on extra labour to supply the place
of those so engaged.
That your Committee also directed your Surveyor, if
possible, to give some employment in planting trees, and in
stone breaking.
That your Committee further directed that no person
should be employed who had not been resident in this Hamlet
for twelve months, and that the hours of employment be not
more than eight hours per day, and that in all cases of the
persons employed in breaking stone the work be done by
piece-work.
That your Committee met again on Friday, the 18th day
of November, inst., there being present Messrs. Loftus,
Browning, J. Druitt, Upton, J. J. Musto, Peacock, Reilly (Dr.),
A. Moore, T. J. Smith, and the Rev. E. Hoskyns.
Your Committee beg to report that up to this date (the
18th) 257 persons have been registered, and your Committee
directed that each of the men put on to work be employed
three consecutive days, to take effect on Monday next, and
that extra men be taken on for repairing of the carriageway
of Wellesley Street.
That your Committee resolved to recommend as follows:
(1) That the proceedings of the Committee be approved.
(2) That the Vestry do reappoint the Committee to act until
the further order of the Vestry.
(3) That the Committee have power to obtain such information
as they may deem necessary.