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25 NOVEMBER, 1891.
VI. The Report of Committee No. 2 was brought up as follows:
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Report of Committee No. 2.
For Highways, Paving, Lighting and Watering.
Wednesday, 25th November, 1891.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Thursday,
the 19th day of November, inst., there being present Messrs.
Hirst, Calton, Ockelford, Mardorf, W. A. Kemp, Andrews,
Wood, and Loftus.
(1) That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
That having regard to the Report of your Surveyor, your
Committee resolved to recommend—That a contract be entered
into for the supply and deliver of 10,000 feet of 3 inch
tooled York Paving, and advertisements inviting tenders
issued; the estimated cost being £350.
(2) That your Committee considered an application of the 18th
November inst. from Messrs. Longuehaye, for permission to
erect three additional lamps opposite their new premises in
Commercial Road East, and resolved to recommend—That
permission be granted, upon condition that they be erected to
the satisfaction of the Vestry's Surveyor, and that Messrs.
Longuehaye give an undertaking to keep alight all night the
lamp at each end of the line, and to remove the lamps when
called upon by your Board so to do.
(3) That your Committee have further considered as to the
planting of trees on the Waste, Mile End Road, between the
"Paragon and Cambridge Road, and your Surveyor reported
thereon as follows:
"In accordance with your directions, I have considered
"the question of arranging for trees in the upper portion
"of Mile End Road.
"From examination I have made of the soil I find it is
"hopeless to think of planting them in the ground, as it
"is so full of gas, (from the large 48m. main which runs
"very close to the space where they are required, ) so as
"to effectually destroy all chance of vegetation living.
"I therefore propose to plant the trees in the manner
"shown in the accompanying sketch. Of course such
"trees would never attain large proportions, but would
"nevertheless be green."