NEWTON: Board of Guardians: Wednesday. The Rev. R. R. Wolfe presided. There was only a limited attendance of guardians. Respecting the Kingsteignton sewage, referred to last week, the following committee were today appointed to confer with Mr. Pinsent, who has obtained an injunction in Chancery to stay proceedings of the works in respect to the main sewage, it being contemplated to have the outlet on his premises near his house. Rev. J. M. Hawker, Messrs. C. Wade, J. Creed, Wills and Dr. Barham, the hope that an amicable arrangement might be come to in the matter, and thereby prevent any extraordinary amount of expenditure that must necessarily follow its being proceeded with. The works are at present stopped, by order of the Lord Chancellor. The visiting committee reported inmates clean and orderly, who made no complaint, and the provisions with which they were supplied were good. The Rev. J. M. Hawker asked the opinion of the Board relative to a girl who was living very respectably in a farmhouse, at Luton, Bishopsteignton. She had saved 17s and her father was continually pestering her for it, and wanted to take her away from her present service and place her to where he could have commanded her earnings. It was very hard on the girl, as she had no wish to leave her present situation. The officer was instructed to advise the girl to stay with her present master, and request the latter if he found her father there again, to summon him for trespassing. Mr. Rendell read the medical report; there were no returns from Messrs. Carter and Nosworthy; the others were satisfactory. The above reports, together with the sanitary and finance, were received and adopted.
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872 (?)