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George Harding At present engaged as Night "Watchman at Liverpool
Road Depot.
George "White Horse-keeper at Liverpool Road Stables.
George Spalding Horse-keeper at the Macclesfield Wharf Stables, but
who at that period attended at the Liverpool Road
Stables to feed the chaff machines.
It occurred to me that it would be more satisfactory if the Chairman,
Mr. Hollyman, was present when the horsekeepers were examined upon this
matter, so I called at his house on Wednesday morning and made an appointment
for 12 o'clock. The two men, William Glover and George Mason, being
deceased, Mr. Hollyman and mys If examined G. Harding and G. White, who
state that they remember the hay being kept separate, cut into chaff and
forwarded to the Shadwell Road Workhouse; both men are positive that no
oats were mixed with the cut hay.
George Spalding states that he received a direct order from Mr. Collis to
cut the hay into chaff for Mr. Furlong, which he did before any of the Vestry
fodder was cut; he also is positive that no oats were mixed with the chaff.
The Chairman and myself next examined the wages book, which is a
complete record of the number of loads collected or removed each day by the
Vestry horses, either dust, slop, highway cartage, and sundry deliveries, and
also the amount paid to the men for same.
We examined the whole of the work done by the Vestry horses during the
months of May, June, July, and August, 1886, and failed to find any record of
fodder being delivered to the Shadwell Road Workhouse, with the exception of
one delivery, on July 26th, 1886, by one of the Liverpool Road dust carts
(R. Gillum and T. Smith), for which they were paid 1s.
The remainder was delivered by men as before stated, therefore no amount
was paid to them for the delivery, they having to pass the workhouse on their
way home.
From April 6th to May 27th, 1886, 26 yards of ballast were delivered by
the Vestry carts to the Shadwell Road Workhouse from the Vestry Depot,
Ashburton Grove, for which the Guardians paid the Vestry £6 10s.
1 am informed by the horsekeeper (W. Spalding) at the Cottenham Road
Stables that a cob belonging to Mr. Furlong was stabled there for two or three
nights about the latter end of the Summer, 1886. This man will attend the
Committee.