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(Nos. 162-168 King Street.) In the case of Nos. 162,
164 and 166 King Street, the Council obtained vacant
possession on completion of the purchase of the leasehold
interest, and shortly after let the premises to Mrs. Judith
Woolf on a quarterly tenancy from the 29th September,
1905, at a rental of £100 per annum for each shop. Arising
out of this an action was brought against the Council by
the freeholders to recover possession of the premises for
breach of covenant of the lease in sub-letting the premises
without the freeholders' consent, although application was
made for this within two days of such sub-letting. The
action was ultimately withdrawn on terms being agreed upon
with the freeholders for the purchase of their interest.
(No. 152A King Street.) Vacant possession was also
given in the case of No. 152A King Street, and this shop
has been let to Mr. John Jukes Cox, the lessee of No. 152
King Street, for one year from Christmas, 1905, at a
rental of £40, this low rental being- agreed to in
consequence of the expense which had to be incurred by Mr.
Cox in putting in a new shop front, and in adaptingthe
premises for the purposes of his business. Two sheds
at the rear of the premises have been let to Mr. J. T.
Weatherburn on a quarterly tenancy at a rental of £5 per
annum.
(No. 98 King Street.) It having come to the knowledge
of the Council that Messrs. Thompson and Jackson had
recently been granted a forty years' lease of No. 98 King
Street, and proposed to make considerable alterations to the
premises before entering into occupation, the Council deemed