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meet the requirements of the numerous cases, the Vestry of Lambeth
directed a letter to be forwarded to Her Majesty's Government urging
the desirability for increasing the allowance paid by the Government
to the reserve men, and this Vestry passed a resolution concurring in
the action taken by that Authority.
At the meeting of the Vestry held on the 2nd January, 1000, the
Chairman reported that Mr. E. E. Attenborough, a member of the
Vestry, had volunteered and had been accepted for service in the
Imperial Yeomanry, in connection with the war in South Africa,
The meeting accordingly tendered to Mr. Attenborough their good
wishes for his safe and speedy return.
LOUD MAYOR'S PROCESSION, 1899.
The announcement that the Lord Mayor's procession would on
the 9th November, 1899, pass through Southwark and along Marshalsea
Road and Borough High Street in this parish was received
by the Vestry on the 24th October, 1899.
A Committee was thereupon appointed to consider the question
of decorating those portions of the parish through which the procession
would pass, and proceeded at once to obtain subscriptions for
that object. The tender of the City of London Firework and
Decoration Company, Ltd., was accepted for the work of decorating
the streets, and the Lord Mayor was thus accorded a fitting reception
in the Borough of Southwark over which the City had ancient
jurisdiction.
BROCKWELL PARK.
During the year a large Committee was voluntarily formed for
the purpose of securing a portion of land adjoining Brockwell Park as
an addition to that open space. An appeal was made to the public
bodies of South London for their assistance towards the purchase of
the land, and a deputation appointed by the Extension Committee
waited upon the Vestry on the 5th December, 1899. The question
was referred to the General Purposes Committee, and at the next
meeting of the Vestry the following resolution was adopted:—
"That, having regard to the distance of Brockwell Park from
this district, and the large expense to which the parish has recently
been put by the removal of the human remains from the Crypt of the
Parish Church, the Brockwell Park Extension Committee be informed