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BROADWAY HOUSE.
To meet the increase of work consequent upon the rapid
development of the District, the Board found it necessary to
provide additional office accommodation, feeling that it might
be more desirable to erect new premises, Advertisements were
issued inviting offers of freehold land in the neighbourhood of
the Broadway, and several sites were offered. Negotiations were
entered into, but the prices asked by the various owners were
so large that the Board was unable to secure an eligible site.
It was then resolved that alterations and additions be made,
and a new Board room erected at the rear of Broadway House,
which premises the Board hold for an unexpired term of 58
years, at the low rental of £50 per annum. Plans were accordingly
prepared by the Board's Surveyor, and a contract
entered into for carrying out the works, which are now in
progress.
The amount required to defray the costs of the work has
been raised by a loan from the Atlas Insurance Company at 4¼
per cent., the repayment of the principal sum being spread
over a period of twenty years.
CARTAGE, ETC.
In August last the Board appointed a Committee of the
whole Board to prepare a scheme for carrying on cartage,
slopping, watering, &c., for the whole District, and report to
the Board, or to take such other steps as might be deemed advisable.
A Sub-committee, consisting of nine members, was then
appointed, which Sub-committee, after making inquiries of the
Vestries and District Boards where the contract system had
been abandoned, personally visited and inspected the various
depots at Paddington, Islington, Newington, Camberwell and
Kensington, and after an exhaustive enquiry presented a
report detailing the result of their enquiries, and reccommending
the Board to take the necessary steps to introduce the plan
as adopted by the above-mentioned Parishes, with such modifications
as may be desirable meet to the requirements of the
District, and also recommending the purchase of certain land
at the rear of No. 7, in the Broadway, and accompanied their
report with detailed estimates (two) of the probable amount
required to be expended in establishing the system in this
District. This report was presented on the 18th November
and adopted, the site purchased, plans have been prepared for