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BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
PADDINGTON.
29th September, 1892.
Report of the Works Committee upon the several
communications received with reference to the rate of
wages paid to men in the employment of the Vestry.
1.—Your Committee have given very careful attention to
the Vestry reference, and in order to deal fairly and fully with
the subject they have obtained pay and labour returns from
other parishes, a summary whereof has already been forwarded
to the Members of the Vestry.
2.—Your Committee would observe that in arriving at
their decisions they have not been influenced by the Resolutions
(some of a dictatorial character) passed at meetings of
workmen and trade unionists.
ROAD SWEEPERS.
3.—The position of the Road Sweepers is, in the opinion
of your Committee, first deserving of attention, inasmuch as
this class of labour is performed by men of all ages and conditions,
several of whom in years gone by have served their
country and in some cases contributed to the rates of the
Parish. The desirability of dividing this labour into classes
has exercised the minds of your Committee, but, from information
derived from the Surveyor, classification, even to a