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Dawes Lane Improvement.
A service of Omnibuses having been put on between Hammersmith
and Victoria, the line of route being through Dawes
Lane, the Board took into consideration the great necessity that
existed for widening the road at the entrance from Walham Green.
Negotiations were entered into and the Hoard purchased the freehold
and leasehold interests in the corner shop for the sum of
£2,000, the premises were pulled down, and this long needed
improvement has been carried out. The surplus land was sold to
the freeholder of the adjoining premises for the sum of £250.
There is another projection in the Road, viz. : St. John's
Vicarage Garden, that requires to be removed, and the Board has
entered into arrangements for the setting back of the wall to the
line of the fence of the adjoining new buildings. The Board
paying the sum of £200.
Path—Victoria Road, near Board School.
Great complaints having been received as to the state of the
path by the Victoria Road Board Schools, the Board has carried
out certain paving works in front of the Schools, at the expense
of the London School Board.
Fish Supply to Metropolis.
In July last year the Board passed a resolution as follows:
That this Board learn with dismay that the quantity of fish forwarded
for sale to the immense population of London, is at
present greatly restricted, not only by the want of market accommodation,
but large quantities of fish were weekly destroyed as unfit
for food, in consequencc of the delay in conveyance to the existing
market, by reason of the want of proper approaches; and in
view of the great importance of securing to such a vast population
as is contained in greater London, the most ample and the
very cheapest supply of food that it is possible to secure, this
Board is of opinion, that the time has arrived when the Legislature
should be asked to annul or modify the ancient charter,
which empowers the Corporation of London to control, restrain,
or prevent the creation of markets within the City of London,
or within a radius of seven miles thereof, and the Board is further
of opinion that the Metropolitan Board of Works should be empowered
by Parliament to take the necessary steps for the creation
or erection of a market or markets, with the necessary approaches
by road, rail and river, believing that the creation of such market
or markets, would result in the greatly increased supply of good