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the control of the markets should be vested in a body representing
the whole Metropolis. The resolutions were sent to all the District
Boards and Vestries, the Metropolitan Board of Works, the Corporation
of the City of London, and the Home Secretary. My
report and plan on the Shadwell site was also sent to the same
authorities, and a petition was presented by me on behalf of your
Board to the Court of Common Council in favour of the Shadwell
site which was referred to the Fish Supply Committee. An important
public meeting was held on the 11th October, 1881, at the
Vestry Hall, St. George's East, in favour of the site. In November,
1881, I reported to your Board that in consequence of the
adverse decisions of the Corporation and the Metropolitan Board
of Works, I had had several interviews with Mr. Robert Hewett,
the Managing Director of Hewett & Co., the well-known Fishing
Company, and that he had decided at his own risk to make application
to Parliament for powers to establish a waterside Fish
Market at Shadwell, trusting to receive the support of the Local
Authorities of the Metropolis, especially those of the East End.
A Bill and Plans were accordingly prepared and duly deposited
for powers to construct a Fish Market at Shadwell, with convenient
approaches, and negociations are pending with the promoters
as to the clauses to be inserted in the Bill for the
protection of the District. The Bill was read a second time in
the House of Commons on the 20th February, 1882.
I am, Gentlemen
Your most obedient Servant,
CHARLES DUNCH,
Surveyor of the Board.