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PAVING AND DRAINING "NEW STREET."
Proceedings are being taken to compel the proprietors in Hollybush
gardens to pay for the cost of paving the gardens, and constructing
a sewer therein. The liability to pay is disputed, and an action to
try the question is now pending.
Rapley place has been paved at the cost of the owners of the different
proprietors in it.
Chapman's gardens and Queen Caroline gardens have been ordered
to be paved at the cost of the owners, and the Surveyor has been
ordered to prepare the necessary estimates and apportionments.
LIGHTING.
A deputation from the Works Committee was appointed to wait on the
clerk of the Vestry of Paddington, to obtain information as to the
arrangements of that Vestry incident to paying for gas supplied to the
public lamps by meter. From unforeseen circumstances, only one
member of the deputation was able to accompany the Clerk. The Vestry
Clerk of Paddington and the officer having charge of the particular
department kindly afforded every information, and agreed again to
receive a deputation. The committee intend to visit Paddington not
only as to the arrangements with respect to lighting but as well the
arrangements for executing by the Vestry the work of scavenging
and the disposal of the refuse.
The price of gas for public lamps per annum has been reduced
for ordinary lamps 3s. 7d. per lamp, and for 3-feet burners 2s. 2d. per
lamp.
MEMBER OF THE METROPOLITAN BOARD.
Mr. Beven, who has represented the Vestry at the Board from the
time of the formation of the Board, resigned his seat in November.
Upon the resignation being announced, a resolution in the terms
following was passed unanimously:—
"That the members of this Vestry receive with much regret the intimation
that Mr. Beven has resigned his seat at the Metropolitan Board of Works
as the representative of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green.
"That they desire to place upon record their high appreciation of the ability
and integrity with which he has represented this Parish during the
whole of the twenty-three years that have elapsed since the formation of
the Metropolitan Board,as well as of the valuable services he has rendered
for the same period as one of their colleagues in the Vestry.
"They tender to him their sincere sympathy in his present impaired health, and
their best wishes for him in that retirement which he now feels to be
needful."