Tue 29 Oct 1872
Increase of 1s per week in wages for lockkeepers and labourers.
Recent loss of trade on Canal. Increased price of coal, diminished consumption by mills, Midland Counties coal brought up Thames from Oxford to Lechlade.
Mr Taunton repeated his suggestion that Canal Company should become carriers and from their own wharves. Decision against of Jan 3 1887 confirmed.
Report of Joint Committee of Houses of Parliament on Railway Companies Amalgamation re interests of Thames & Severn Canal.
Exchange of gauge from broad to narrow on Great Western Railway. Prejudicial to Navigation. Facilitates communication with Staffordshire and South Wales on railway.
Failure of works associated with Canal feeder at the Barton, Cirencester, settled by arrangement with Lord Bathurst’s Agent, Mr Anderson. Terms: Canal Company to repair and make feeder substantial and watertight as well as culvert constructed for carrying water of Daglingworth Stream under feeder.
Lord Bathurst to repair arch and walls carrying road between feeder and Daglingworth culvert.
Mr Taunton to superintend and decide cost.
Mr Phil Evans applied to convert old salt warehouse on island at Brimscombe into a workshop to make patent straps. Lease granted.
Long stoppage needed on Summit Level to repair some of defective puddles. Water not let out for more than 20 years.
Half-yearly statement of accounts to 1 Oct 1872.
