hutkeepers

To every hut are appointed two men, as hutkeepers, whose only employment is to watch the huts in working hours to prevent them from being robbed.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

On another occasion the shepherds and hutkeepers out on a lonely plain had begun to grow afraid of the troublesome tribes in the neighbourhood, and cunningly made them a present of flour, in which white arsenic had been mixed.

History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880

To every hut are appointed two men, as hutkeepers, whose only employment is to watch the huts in working hours to prevent them from being robbed.

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson Watkin Tench 1796