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to be deposited in the inner safe in the strong room as the
Bye-law No. 44 directs.
The Committee considered a reference by the Vestry
upon a letter of Mr T. E. K. White, dated 7th July, submitting
an application for an increase of his salary. Having
regard to the number of assessments in Wards Nos. 1 and
3, St. John, and to the qualifications required for the
successful collection of the rates therein, the Committee
recommended that the maximum salary attaching to the
appointment of collector for those wards be increased from
£200 to £250 by annual increments of £10: and that the
salary of Mr. T. E. K. White, the present collector, be
increased to £210.
Upon amotion that the Vestry adopt the recommendation
of the Committee the following amendment was submitted
and carried by 25 votes to 14, viz.:—
"That the present maximum fixed for the payment of rate
collectors is sufficiently high, and be for the present retained."
Parliamentary
Committee
The eighteen members elected upon this Comnittee
were as follows:—
St. Margaret.
Joseph Keech Ashton
James Brend Batten
Thomas Bond,M.B.,F.R.C.SDavid
de Pinna
John Fergusson
Edgar Horne
Hon. Ashley G J. Pon-
sonby, J.P.
George William Tallents
William Edward Murray
Tomlinson, M.P.
St. John.
Thomas Adams
George John Chappie
Benjamin Francis Conn
Costelloe, M.A., B.Sc.
Alexander FitzGerald
Thomas Horn
Frederick Seager Hunt,
M.P.
Charles Palmer
Frederick Rose
Alfred Wright
Mr. J. B. Batten was elected Chairman, and Mr. Thomas
Horn, Vice-Chairman.
The Committee held seven meetings for the consideration
of schemes more or less directly affecting the parish, as also