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having approved the Report, resolved to invite the Poplar and
Whitechapel District Boards and the Vestries of Mile End Old
Town, Bethnal Green, and St. George-in the-East to appoint
Delegates to confer with representatives of this Board upon the
subject, and such conference will take place in due course.
LONDON HYDRAULIC POWER COMPANY.
Notice was given dated 1st March, 1889, by the Engineers and
General Managers of the London Hydraulic Power Company, of the
intention of that Company to lay mains in those portions of Upper
East Smithfield, and Dock Street, within the Limehouse District as
shewn in the tracing accompanying the Notice. The Company have
statutory powers under the London Hydraulic Power Acts, 1871,
and 1884, to lay mains for applying motive power by hydraulic
pressure, to cranes used for the purpose of raining and lowering
goods, and for working Dock Gaten, and other machinery, and also
power to break up streets and lay down pipes for the purposes of the
arts, the Company repaying any expense incurred by local authorities
in relaying the paving &c, and in supervising the Company's works.
TRAMWAYS.
The North Metropolitan Tramways Company are reconstructing
their line in Burdett road, and relaying the paving abutting
thereon.
In July, 1888, the Directors of the Tramway Company, in consequence
of a representation made by thin Board, consented that in
future the fares on the Cans running between the West India Dock
and Victoria Park, should the name on Sundays and Bank
Holidays as on week days, a concession which has since been extended
over the whole of the North Metropolitan Tramway Company's
system.
DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES, STEPNEY CAUSEWAY.
The carriageway of Stepney Causeway, from the part previously
widened to the Coinmercial Road, has been widened to facilitate the
traffic in that thoroughfare, and the same has been paved with
asphalte by the Val de Travers Asphalte Paving Company, the cost
of the works being borne by Dr. Barnardo.
Dr. Barnardo has by consent of the Board, placed two ornamental
lamps and columns, at the end of Stepney Causeway, in
Commercial Road, with notices indicating the situation of the
Homes. The cost of lighting the lamp on the west side is paid by
Dr. Barnardo, ami of the other (fixed in lieu of the public lamp and
column formerly there), by the Board.