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and after interviewing 18 candidates, the names of the following 6 applicants were
selected for presentation to the Vestry:—
1 C. H. Belward.
2. J. F. Coffin.
3. C. W. Cranston.
4. H. L. Loly, Clerk in Vestry's Rate Department years,
responsible for the Rate Books for Moorfields, Wenlock
and Whitmore Wards.
5. H. E. Manger.
6. F. D. Price.
On the 5th April, 1892, Mr. Hector Leopold Loly was appointed a Rate
Collector of this Vestry and Parish, at a salary of £160 per annum, he providing
an office in the Ward to which he might be assigned, and to devote the whole of
his time to the duties, and to furnish security in an approved Guarantee Society in
the sum of £500. Mr. Loly was subsequently assigned the Moorfields Ward, and
he at once entered upon his new duties.
(b) Mr. J. F. BURTON, ARREARS CLERK.
On the 3rd May, 1892, a letter was read to the Vestry from Mr. J. F. Burton
tendering his resignation as an officer of the Vestry. A resolution was passed
accepting the resignation, and the question of filling up the vacancy was referred
to the Officers' Committee.
(c) GENERAL AND ARREARS CLERKSHIP, AND RATE CLERKSHIP.
On the 12th April, 1892, the question of the filling up of the vacant Rate
Clerkship occasioned by the promotion of Mr. H. L. Loly to the post of
Rate Collector, was referred to the Officers' Committee, who caused the usual
advertisements to be inserted. The matter of filling up the vacancy on the Vestry
Clerk's staff, occasioned by the retirement of Mr. Burton, was also referred to the
Officers' Committee, who recommended in their report of the 9th May, 1892, that
one of the applicants for the appointment of Rate Clerk (then being advertised)
who was able to write shorthand and to take minutes, should be selected to fill Mr.
Burton's position, at a salary of £100 a year. The Committee also recommended
that 7 candidates should be submitted to the Vestry for the selection of candidates
to fill this vacancy and that of Rate Clerk. These recommendations were adopted
by the Vestry. The Committee received 88 applications, and after interviewing
18 selected candidates, selected 3 applicants for the office of General and Arrears
Clerk, and 4 for the office of Rate Clerk. These candidates appeared before the
Vestry on the 31st May, 1892, when Mr. J. A. Douglas Milne, Junior and
Corresponding Clerk to the Walthamstow Local Board, was appointed as General
and Arrears Clerk; and Mr. James H. Pickup, of Bacup, near Manchester,