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The Vestry applied to the Metropolitan Board for liberty to do
so and also requested that Board itself to advance the amount.
The license was granted and the Board offered to advance the
money at 4½ per cent. This rate of interest the Vestry thought
very high, but were unable to get the amount at any less rate from
any well-known source, and ultimately therefore accepted the offer
of the Metropolitan Board, and the mortgage has been duly
effected.
Loans
generally.
A list of the loans outstanding will be found at the foot of the
General Purposes Account at pages 48 and 49.
Openings
and repair
of roads
by Public
Companies.
During the year considerable annoyance and cost have been
experienced by the proceedings of the Gas and Water Companies.
Several of the streets which had only recently been put into
thorough repair were opened and not reinstated in a way which
met with the approval of the Vestry or their Surveyor.
The Gas Light and Coke Company were by far the worst
offenders, and they declined to employ a steam roller in reinstating
roads where the steam roller had been employed when the road
was made up by the Vestry.
Summons
against
Gas Ligbt
and Coke
Company.
The Vestry determined to try the question and summoned the
Company named before the Police Magistrate. At the hearing
the Company produced a great number of witnesses to say that
it would be dangerous to the pipes to use the steam roller and the
Magistrate dismissed the summons.
Subsequently the Company agreed that a horse roller might be
used and this was accordingly done.
Four-mile
radiusand
Street
Refuge.
During the year two suggestions were received by the Vestry
which, in the opinion of the Vestry, would greatly conduce to the
convenience of the public if carried out.
One was from the Home Secretary as to placing a Street Refuge
in Mile End Road, near Sydney Street; the other was from the
Commissioners of Police as to placing lamps at the four-mile
radius, with a notice to that effect upon them.
The Vestry accordingly acceded to both suggestions and they
are in the course of being carried out.
Gas to
Public
Lamps.
The Vestry have much pleasure in recording that the price of
gas for the public lamps has been reduced from £4 6s. 3d. to
£4 3s. od. per lamp per annum.