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TELEPHONES.
An application having been received from the National'
Telephone Company, Limited, for permission to lay down cables
on the east side of the Southwark Bridge Road, from Southwark
Bridge to Marshalsea Road, the Board consented, subject to the
Company agreeing to pay a rental of £50 per annum to the
Board for the concession. An agreement, bearing date the 18th
day of March, 1895, has been entered into accordingly.
TRAIN SERVICE.
On receipt of a circular letter from the Vestry of Battersea
stating that that Vestry had had under consideration the question
of securing a cheaper train service on the lines of the various
railway companies, and asking the Board to appoint delegates to
ittend a conference on the subject, the Board appointed Messrs.
Ernest Collard and A. R. Layman as delegates accordingly.^
DOORKEEPER.
The Board being desirous of superannuating, on the ground
of old age, Henry Young, the doorkeeper, who had been in its
service for about 19 years, due notice was given to j the
Members of the Board, as required by the Superannuation Act
of 1866, and, on the 3rd of April, 1895, it was unanimously
resolved to grant him a pension of £24 14s. per annum for the
remainder of his life, such amount being in accordance with the
scale laid down by the Act. Robert MacLeod, who had been
house porter at the Shoreditch Infirmary, was afterwards appointed1
to fill the vacancy.
UNION STREET.
In April an offer was received from Messrs. Clutton, on
behalf of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to give up for public
uses a strip of land on the north side of Union Street, if the
Board would pave the same, and it has consented to do so. The
effect will be to make the street 40 feet wide for a length of about
240 feet opposite the Board Schools.
ELECTION OF AUDITORS.
Pursuant to the requirement in that regard of the Metropolis
Local Management Act, the Board, in April last, balloted for
Auditors to audit the accounts of the Board for the year 1894-95,
and the following were chosen, viz.:—
St. Saviour.
Mr. D. H. Gaskain, Calvert's Buildings, hop factor.
Mr. F. H. Hendrichs, 46, Bankside, cullet merchant.
Christchurch.
Mr. W. Robertson, 210, Blackfriars Road, pawnbroker.