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School Board for London,
Victoria Embankment, W.C.
22nd April, 1875.
Dear Sirs,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
20th inst., which be laid before the Board at their meeting next week.
I am, Dear Sirs,
Your obedient Servant,
Messrs. Hawks & Stokes, (Signed) G. II. CROAD,
Vestry Offices, 82 Paradise-street, S.E. Clerk to the Board.
Denmark Mill, S.E.,
23rd April, 187").
Dear Sirs,
I am favoured by yours of the 21st, informing me of the purport
of a discussion by your Vestry on the subject of the School Board expenditure, and
beg vou will tender the members my best thanks for the moderate and practical tone
of their resolution. I speak in the name of all my colleagues, when I say, we are most
anxious on the subject of expenditure, and will never cease our efforts to control it
within reasonable limits, at the same time securing thorough efficiency. We have had
uphill work and need all the support we can get from the ratepayers as a body, but we
can point with just pride to the Schools that have been built and filled in our division,
and the efficient teaching carried on within their walls, and if the members of the Vestry
would only visit some of them, I am sure they would be satisfied.
I am, Dear Sirs,
Yours faithfully,
Messer. Hawks & Stokes, (Signed) ALFRED LAFONE.
Vestn of St. Marv, Rotherhithe.
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160, Long Lane, S.E.,
23rd April, 1875.
Dear Sirs,
1 beg to acknowledge your letter of the 21st from the Vestry
of St. Mary, Rotherhithe, upou the subject of the expenditure of the London School
Board, and I assure the Vestry that 1 am entirely with them in using my utmost
endeavours to prevent any undue and unnecessary expense in carrying out the work
of the Board. I am, Dear Sirs,
Yours faithfullv,
Messrs. Hawks & Stokes, (Signed) J. WALLACE.
Vestrv Clerks, 82 Paradise-street, S.E.
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The Vestry also appointed Messrs. Robert Allen and Thomas William Clarke as
delegates, to attend a conference of representatives from the various Metropolitan
Authorities, upon the subject of the policy and increased expenditure of the School
Board for London.