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last year, applied to the Metropolitan Board of Works for authority
to abolish the name of Green Walk as applied to the short
thoroughfare connecting Holland Street with Southwark Street,
and to incorporate the same with Holland Street under the latter
name, in order to relieve Holland Street as much as possible from
its position of isolation and obscurity resulting from the western
entrance or mouth of the Street in the Blackfriars Road having
been permanently closed by the works of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway Company; and, in August last, the necessary
authority having been obtained, the alterations in name and
numbering were effected. About the same time an Order was
received for continuing the numbering of premises in Southwark
Street to the western extremity thereof, which hitherto had
remained in abeyance in consequence of the non-appropriation of
Sites; and this also has been carried out.
The Board has given permission to the promoters of Cabmen's
"Shelters" to place a "Shelter" at the Cab-stand in Southwark
Street, and another at the Cab-stand near the Bridge-end of the
Blackfriars Road.
Cabmen's
Shelters.
The attention of this Board having been called by the Board of
Works for the Westminster District and other Boards and Vestries
of the Metropolis to the large and increasing expenditure of the
School Board for London, this Board, in April last, appointed three
of its Members, viz.,—Mr. Cozens, Mr. Chappell, and Mr. Dunn,
as delegates, to confer with the other local authorities on this
important question, and a deputation has lately waited upon
Lord Sandon and the Duke of Richmond upon the subject.
School Board
Policy and
Expenditure
The Board regret to announce the decease of their Colleagues,
Mr. "William Allan, Mr. Henry Prince, and Mr. John Castle,
who had long been associated with them as Members of the Board;
and also, on the 6th April last, of Mr. Herbert Sturmy, who, from
the commencement of the Board and until his retirement at
Lady-day, 1874, had filled the Office of Clerk and Solicitor of the
Board.
Obituary.
The following Precepts have been issued during the past year to Precepts.