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to certain suggestions contained in the Report of the Joint Committee
of both Houses of Parliament on the subject.
After considering the suggestions, the Vestry passed a resolution
concurring with the views of Hammersmith, that, where powers have
been given for the erection of a generating station outside the area of
supply, the Local Authority within the area of supply should have the
power of deciding the route the mains are to be laid, as well as the
power of themselves breaking up and reinstating the streets.
The Vestry also strongly objected to the proposals contained in
the report to minimise the power of veto possessed by local authorities
as to the erection of overhead wires and the granting of Electric
Light Provisional Orders.
Officers.
vestry clerk's department.
Mr. Arthur E. Baldrey was, on the 24th May, 1898, appointed
Clerk in the Accountant's Department of the Vestry Clerk's Office, in
the place of Mr. F. Seabrook, resigned, at a salary of 35s. per week,
rising, by annual increments of 2s. 6d., to a maximum of 45s. a week.
Owing to circumstances which are well known to the Vestry and
the Parish, the Collector for Ward 1 was on the 12th July, 1898, on
the recommendation of the Overseers, removed from his office, and
Mr. Thomas Brown, the Vestry's Accountant, was ultimately appointed
to the post on the 15th November, 1898. His poundage was
fixed at the rate of 2½d. in the £ until the sum amounted to £300
per annum; after that sum was reached, the poundage on all monies
collected to be at the rate of l½d. in the £.
The position of Accountant was filled by the appointment of
Mr. C. H. Patterson, A.S.A.A., on the 20th December, 1898, at the
salary of £200 per annum, rising by annual increments of £10 to
£250 per annum.
Mr. V. A. Balls, Minute Clerk, resigned his post on the
21st March, 1899, on obtaining another appointment.
surveyor's department.
Mr. O. E. Winter, who had been Surveyor to the Parish from
1895, having obtained another appointment, handed his resignation