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GATES AND BARS IN STREETS.
A Conference was held at the St. Pancras Vestry Hall on
the 9th April, 1884, to consider what action it might be desirable
to take with a view to remove the obstructive gates and
bars which exist in various streets in certain parts of the
Metropolis. A deputation had previously waited upon the
Home Secretary, who intimated that in his opinion the
proper course to pursue was for the Metropolitan Board of
Works to introduce a Bill dealing with the subject, and that
if the Board needed any assistance from the Government in
the matter, he would afford them what facilities he could.
A resolution was passed at the Conference, asking the
Metropolitan Board of Works to take up the matter, and
upon this decision being communicated to the Vestry (in
common with other local authorities), a resolution was
passed expressing concurrence therewith. The Board, however,
deferred taking any action in the matter, and a further
meeting of the Conference was accordingly held, when a
memorial was adopted urging the Board to introduce a Bill
for the removal of all gates, bars, and other obstructions in
streets where the cost of paving, lighting, maintaining, and
sewering such streets is defrayed out of the rates. The
Vestry also supported this memorial. The Board have now
before Parliament a Bill to enable them, at the joint expense
of the Metropolis and the Parish and District affected, to
abolish all gates, bars, and similar obstructions in streets
which are cleansed, maintained, or lighted at public expense.
DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE INTO THE THAMES.
Upon the invitation of the Vestry of St. George, Hanover
Square, the Vestry appointed five of their members to attend
a Conference of Representatives from the various Local
Authorities of the Metropolis, to consider the system ot
drainage into the River Thames and the alleged silting up
of the Upper Reaches caused thereby. N 2