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REFUGE FOR FOOT PASSENGERS.
On the suggestion of Mr. F. Redman, of No. 146, Borough
High Street, the Board provided a rest or refuge, with suitable
lamp column, etc., in the centre of the roadway of the Borough
High Street, a little to the north of St. Thomas's Street for the
convenience of persons crossing that crowded thoroughfare —particularly
the aged and infirm, and persons going to and from
Guy's Hospital.
GAS LIGHTING.
By special arrangement with the South Metropolitan Gas
Company, the Company supplying this district, the Board has
adopted the system of incandescent gas lighting for the public
lamps. The terms are described by Mr. G. R. Norrish, the
Surveyor of the Board, in his report hereunto annexed.
The Company has notified that the recent increase in the
price of gas from 2s. 1d. to 2s. 8d. per 1000 feet, occasioned by
the great advance in the price of coal, will not affect their
charge for the supply of gas to the public lamps pending the
term of the special arrangement referred to.
At a recent meeting a letter was received from the London
County Council intimating that it had resolved to convene a
conference at Spring Gardens of local authorities, to be held
after the recess, to consider the charges for gas made by the
London Gas Companies, the quality of the gas supplied and
other matters in relation thereto, and inviting the Board to
send representatives to such conference. The Board, thinking
it desirable that the matter should be discussed, appointed three
delegates as requested, namely, the Chairman of the Board,
(Mr. R. W. Bowers, J.P.), Mr. F. H. Hendrichs and Mr. T. G.
Young. The date of the conference has not yet been fixed.
POND YARD.
In the last Annual Report it was stated that the vexed
question of the right of way through Pond Yard, Bankside, was
in a fair way of settlement, an arrangement having been come
to with Mr. Fortescue whereby certain land in the rear of
No. 27, Emerson Street and the adjoining houses would be
given up and a new way opened up through the premises,
subject to the consent of the Court of Quarter Sessions being
obtained for the closing of the old thoroughfare. Application
was made in due course to the Quarter Sessions and an order
obtained, dated the 17th January, 1900, sanctioning the closing
of the same, and the formation of the new street or way was
likewise sanctioned by the London County Council. The house,