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of food with which the market, at the moment, happens
to be over supplied. In reply to specific questions, the
Vestry informed the Council that the street market referred
to causes little interference with traffic; that the majority
of the shopkeepers in the neighbourhood are in favour of
its being retained ; that it could not easily be moved to
another place ; that it might be allowed to expand naturally
northward in Berwick Street and into Broad Street;
that it should not be restricted to perishable articles of
food only, but open to all classes of goods except such as
are likely to spread contagion or infection, as second-hand
clothing ; that it should not be limited to vendors resident
in the district ; and that no sufficiently useful purpose to
justify the trouble would be served by registering or
licensing the vendors.
DISTURBANCES AT EASTBOURNE.
The Vestry had before them, in January, a communication
from the Mayor of Eastbourne, on the subject of the
recent disturbances in that town arising from the Salvation
Army conducting services in the public streets, in a manner
which met with opposition from a number of the residents.
At the same meeting the Vestry also had before them a
statement and documents on the same subject sent to them
by the Salvation Army.
It appeared to the Vestry that the principle of local
self-government, which forms the basis of the Municipal
Corporations Act, 1882, under which Eastbourne is
governed, entitles the majority of residents of a locality to
decide as to the extent to which the unauthorised, but often
tacitly acknowledged, use of public thoroughfares and other