BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION TRUSTEES.

Evening Star, Issue 8526, 27 May 1891, Page 3

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION TRUSTEES.

The weekly meeting of the Benevolent Institution Trustees was held this afternoon ; present—Messrs A. Solomon (chairman), C. Haynes, R. Wilson, W. Swan, W. Isaac, and J. Green. Accounts amounting to Ll6O 49 5d were passed for payment. The Chairman read a leDgthy report in accordance with Mr Swan's motion at last meeting with reference to the salaries, wages, and duties performed by the officers. The report ahowed that the officers were a secretary, who received L 250 without board ; an inspector, Ll2O without board ; a master and matron, LllO with boaid ; a female cook, LI per week ; a laundress, 15s ; under-laundress, 10s ; housemaid, 12s ; another boußemaid, 10s; and a scullery maid, 103. All the servants in the Institution were given their board. None of the officers received any other remuneration. All the _ salaries, except those of the secretary and inspector, were charged to the Institution, and were part of the 5s 6d per week which it cost to keep the inmates. A list of the duties performed by the officers was attached. —Mr Swak thanked the secretary for preparing gnch a. complete report. Hi 3 object in moving for the report was to gain the information for himself and his co Trustees, and also to discover if there was any room for ret"=2chment. Then it seemed to him that tome people thought Mr Haynes had been treated rather harshly wheu he recently moved for a certain report, and for toat reason it was with the further view of giving Mr Haynes a? opportunity of gaining the information he then desired that he moved in the matter. He intended now to move for a sub-committee, whose duty it won d be to report if any retrenchment could bo carried out, and Mr Haynes, whom he intended to propose as a member of the Committee, would have the opportunity of embodying in the report anything he had not so far ventilated to the Trustees. He would move-"That Mr Haynes, Mr Wilson, and the mover be appointed a subcommittee to consider the secretary s statement and report thereon, and generally on the affairs of the Institution.' Mr a. Gopslet seconded the motion. —Mr Haynes said he failed to see any connection between the motion and that moved by him sometime ago. Had Mr Swan seconded his (the speaker's) motion the information wanted would have been obtained long ago. Xhe motion after further discussion was earried. The Chaibman stated that the secretary now kept a book which showed the oost of the outdoor relief for each month, and the number of adults and children relieved. Fifty-five relief cases were dealt with.