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6
Attendances
of Members
A return showing the number of attendances
of members, and the number of meetings to
which they were summoned is given as an Appendix
hereto (No 1) The period comprised therein commenced
with the 12th June, 1889, and ended with the 10th
May, 1890
APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES
At the first meeting of the Vestry after its re-constitution,
the four Standing Committees were appointed For the
sixteen seats on the Finance Committee, of which the
Churchwardens and Overseers for the time being are ex
officio Members, there were twenty three nominations; for
election upon the Works and General Purposes Committee,
which consists of twenty four Members, there were
forty-two nominations; thirty-five names were proposed
for appointment to the twenty-four seats on the Street
Cleansing and Sanitary Committee, and twenty-three
names were put to the vote for the eighteen seats upon the
Parliamentary Committee As the names of the Members
chosen have already been given at pages xi and xii, their
repetition here is unnecessary It may be stated that the
regulations governing these appointments afford every
Member of the Vestry an equal opportunity of nomination
upon any two of the Committees on which he would like
to sit No Member is eligible for seats on more than two
Committees, and provision is made by the standing orders
of the Vestry for an equal apportionment of seats on all
Committees between the two parishes
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
Mr C C Piper and Mr W M Scudamore were re-elected
as Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively of this Committee
The duties devolving upon the Committee since
the dissolution of the District Board of Works may be
said to have doubled, for under the former system such