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five persons, and the tender of Messrs. Macfarlane and Co., at £49 2s.,
was accepted. Afterwards a deputation from the inhabitants of Waterlooroad
and the neighbourhood presented a memorial to the Vestry objecting
to the erection of the urinal, and pressing the Vestry to reconsider
its decision. The memorial was referred to the Works Committee for
consideration. A motion to rescind the resolution was made on the
28th June, but there not being a majority of two-thirds of the members
present, the motion was lost.
On the 5th July some inhabitants of houses in and near Waterlooroad
attended, and urged further that the resolution to erect the
urinal should be reconsidered; and on the 2nd August the Vestry
passed a resolution rescinding the resolution ro erect the urinal in the
Waterloo-road.
A urinal has been erected at the Cambridge Heath end of Hackneyroad;
the cost of which, including the cost of delivering and fixing,
but exclusive of masons' work and foundations, was £157.
The urinal which was purchased for Waterloo-road has been erected
in Queen's-road, Cambridge-road, near the Queen's Head Tavern.
METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADE.
The subject of the proposed transfer of the management of the
Brigade from the Metropolitan Board of Works to the Metropolitan
Police was considered by the Vestry, and the Vestry passed a resolution
expressing its concurrence in the views set forth in the Report of
the 18th December of the Metropolitan Board of Works, as to the
inadvisability of the suggested transfer being made.
HOLLYBUSH GARDENS.
The state of Hollybush Gardens has been repeatedly before the
Vestry, and also the subject of opening the northern end so as to form
a street from Bethnal Green-road into Middleton-street. The freeholders
and leaseholders were communicated with. The road in
the gardens was claimed to be, and clearly is, private property, and
the freeholders and principal leaseholders objected to its being made
a public road, and to having it opened into Middleton-street. The