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the time has arrived when the resolution of the Hoard to pave the
streets with asphalte, or some other equally cleanly material, should
be carried out; and, in view of the useful and beneficent work of
the Library, it is hoped the Hoard will pave the streets named with
Jarrah wood at the earliest moment."
The letter was referred to the Paving and General Purposes
Committee, who reported recommending that the three streets
referred to should be paved with asphalte. The work has been
carried out accordingly by the Limmer Asphalte Paving Company,
Limited.
Flushing
In November, 1892, a circular-letter was received from the
Board of Works for the St. Giles's District, forwarding copy of a
letter which they hud addressed to the Hoard of Trade, expressing
an opinion that the size of water waste-preventing cisterns and
service boxes attached to water closets was insufficient, and that
cisterns which are capable of discharging at least 3 gallons of
water at each flush should be substituted for the 2-gallon
cisterns in use. The Hoard approved the suggestion, but was of
opinion that any fresh regulations made on the subject should
apply to new cisterns only, and not be retrospective in their
operation. Subject to this qualication, a communication was
addressed to the Hoard of Trade in support of the suggestion,
South
Eastern
Railway Bill
On the 30th November a parliamentary plan, accompanied by
gazette notice, &c., was deposited by the South Eastern Railway
Company, showing alterations proposed to be made in the
neighbourhood of Clink Street and Bankend. By their Act of
1892 the Company were authorised to enter into agreements for
exchange of lands in Clink Street, Bankend, and Bankside, and
negotiations had been in progress for an improvement at the spot.
The Bill of 1898, however, merely provided for the stopping up
and acquisition by the Company of the lands required by them
without any quid pro quo or compensation whatever, and entirely
ignored the provision of the Act of 1892 for exchange. An
agreement, conveyed in letters received from the Secretary of the
Company, not being deemed wholly satisfactory, and time
pressing, the Board caused a Petition to be lodged against the
Bill in order to obtain a locu.s standi. Further negotiations
ensued and ultimately the Company consented, subject to withdrawal
of the Petition and all opposition on the part of the Board,
to insert a clause in the Bill, as follows:—(Section 5).
"Before the Company stop up, appropriate, or interfere with any part of
the public ways, numbered on the deposited plans 1 and 2, in the
Parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, they shall, at their own cost,
pull down and remove so much and such parts of the building
known as Crown Wharf, adjoining Clink Street and Bankside in the
said Parish, as is situate on the land coloured pink on the plan,
signed in duplicate by the Right Honourable the Earl of Morley,
Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, one part of which
plan is deposited in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, and
they shall throw into the public way and dedicate to the public use
the whole of the lands coloured pink on the said plan."