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Town Hall Lettings.
The receipts from the letting of the large hall and other
rooms in the Town Hall during the past twelve months have
amounted to £494 5s. 8d. The purposes for which the hall
and rooms were hired are as follow:—
Balls and dances 47
Concerts 29
Exhibitions 3
Jewish Ladies' work meetings 22
Political and other meetings 19
Lectures 4
Dinners and luncheons 4
Masonic Lodge meetings 11
Wedding receptions 2
Conversaziones 2
Bazaars 1
Distribution of prizes 3
Flower show 1
Receptions and At Homes 5
Total 155
Rosebank Wharf.
Messrs. John Barker and Co., Ltd., vacated at
Christmas last the portion of Rosebank Wharf which they
had rented from the Council for some years, and an offer
of the London County Council to rent the same portion,
with an additional area of land giving access from Holyport
Road, for two years, from Christmas, at a rental of £200 per
annum, was accepted by the Borough Council.
The boundary fence of Rosebank Wharf in Holyport
Road has been replaced by a 9-inch wall with 18-inch piers,
at a total cost of £344 13s. 1d.
Street Betting.
In support of the action initiated by the Richmond
Corporation, the Borough Council has presented a petition
to His Majesty's Government, urging the introduction of a
short Bill empowering Justices, upon second and subsequent
convictions of persons for the offence of street betting, to
convict the offender to prison without the option of a fine.
The petitions of the local authorities were supported by a
deputation which waited upon the Secretary of State for the
Home Department on the 29th March, and on which the
Council were represented by Alderman Pascall.