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REPORT, 1888-89. 75
9-—The Cloak-rooms : A charge of 7s. 6d. for each
room will be made for the use of them.
10.—The Commissioners reserve to themselves the
right to cancel any engagement which they afterwards
find will be detrimental to the Letting
of the Hall or Rooms.
Under these regulations no spirituous liquors have
been allowed to be sold during the year by persons
renting the Hall or Rooms. This has probably caused
a small falling off in the takings, which have been
£153 75- 11d. as compared with £175 is. 6d. in 1887-8,
but is an improvement on 1886-7, when they only
amounted to £108 3s. od.
The largest room on the first floor has been let since the
15th October, 1888, as an Art School in connection with the
Government Department of Science and Art, South
Kensington, under the supervision of Mr. W. S. Duncan,
M.A.I. Certificated Art and Science Master; the Commissioners
consider this is likely to prove a boon to the
residents in Paddington.
On the 25th February, 1889, the Commissioners made
arrangements for the letting of the piece of vacant land
at the rear of the Washhouses in Douglas Place, to Mr.
William Whiteley for a term, at an annual rent of £g6, the
tenancy to be terminable by a quarter's notice on either
side.
JOHN WILLIAMS, Chairman.
William Langridge, Vice-Chairman.
Henry Francis Blair, Colonel R.E
William Clarke.
William H, W. Hanney.
Nathaniel A. Jephson.
Francis Plimley.
Commissioners.
Henry G. Holland,
Clerk to the Commissioners.
July 29th, 1889.
Art
School
Letting of
Land in
Rear of
Washhouses