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Disturbance of
Roads by Water
Company.
The Kingston Corporation invited the
Board to send representatives to a Conference
ot local authorities which they had convened to
consider the subject of the serious disturbance of roads
caused by the frequent openings made by the Southwark
and Vauxhall Water Company for the repair of their
trunk water main from Hampton to Nunhead, which
passes through a portion ot the parish of Streatham.
The Board took part in the earlier proceedings of the
Conference, but in view of the difference between the
provisions of the Metropolis Management Acts and of
the Acts in force outside the Metropolis relating to the
opening of roads by water companies, to the comparatively
small extent to which this Board is affected by
the main in question, and to the fact that the Board
were not able to join with the other authorities in taking
legal proceedings in the matter, the Board were of
opinion that it was not expedient to take further part in
the Conference. The Board have called the attention
of the Company to the great inconvenience to traffic
and injury to the roads arising from the frequency with
which openings have been made in some roads in Streatham
and have requested them to put their main in
proper order so as to prevent further cause for complaint.
Huguenot
Cemetery.
The Board have had under consideration
a proposal • from the Metropolitan Public
Gardens Association that the Board should take over
the Huguenot burial ground at East Hill, Wandsworth,
and maintain it as a public garden, the Association
undertaking to lay it out and provide gates, &c«
Several letters were received by the Board from persons
interested in the cemetery objecting to the proposal, and
after careful consideration of the matter, it was decided
to inform the Association that in view of the fact that
the large open space of Wandsworth Common was close