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[Fisheries and Harbour Department] upon the same subject, stating that the Board would
be glad to receive, as early as possible, any observations the Vestry might desire to offer on
the request of the Promoters to the Board of Trade that the consent of the Vestry should
bo dispensed with, and also on the reply of the Promoters to the objections of the Vestry.
The Clerk reported that he had already furnished the Board of Trade with a very full
statement of the Vestry's objections to the grant of a Provisional Order to the Company.
Resolved—That the Clerk be instructed to reply to the Board of Trade drawing attention
to the terms of the Vestry's previous letter.
The Board of Trade subsequently refused to grant the Order.
London Electric Supply Corporation, Limited.
On Gth December, 1898, the General Purposes and Works Committee reported receipt
by the Surveyor of a notice and plan of the intention of the Company to lay distributing
mains along both sides of Union Road from the junction of Lower Road to Soulhwark
Park Road.
The Vestry resolved to approve the plan for one side only.
Fire Escape.
On Gth September, 1898, the Vestry had before them a letter from the Clerk to the London
County Council, stating that the Council had decided, on the recommendation of the Chief
Officer of the Fire Brigade, that whenever a Horsed Fire Escape of the improved pattern is
kept at a Fire Station it is not necessary to retain the Fire Escapes hitherto kept in the
public thoroughfares within a certain radius of the Station ; that the authorities of the Norwegian
Church, Bickley Row, had required the Council to move within a short time the Fire
Escape and Watch-box from their premises, the space being wanted for other purposes,