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It does not belong to the history of the year, but it may
be mentioned, in passing, that your Vestry having, on 24th
February, 1897, appointed a Special Committee "to consider and
report what action should be taken to commemorate, in the
parish of Kensington, the Diamond Jubilee of Her Most
Gracious Majesty the Queen," the said Committee thought it
desirable that an effort should be made to elicit the views of
"representative residents" of the parish on the subject. In
accordance with this suggestion, after approval by your
Vestry, a meeting was held at the Town Hall on 15th March,
at which it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Mr.
T. W. Wheeler, Q.C., the Chairman alike of the Vestry, the
Special Committee and the meeting, to give effect to the
loyal feelings of the parishioners by "the promotion of a
scheme, having for its object the amelioration of the
condition of the inhabitants of that limited district in the
parish, to which public attention has for some time past been
prominently drawn "—in other words the so-called "Notting
Dale "Special Area; a course which had been suggested, but
was not approved, on July 15th, 1896, when the report of the
Special Committee was submitted. By all well-wishers of the
poor a fervent "God speed" will ascend for the success of the
well-meant endeavour to remove an opprobrium to the Royal
Parish of Kensington; and, probably, by no one would the
success of the endeavour be more heartily appreciated than
by the Gracious Lady, in honour of whose long and glorious
reign the scheme has been initiated.