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be more convenient to strike out Holborn and
include Clerkenwell and St. Luke's in a general
scheme affecting the North and North Eastern
Districts, such as Islington, Hackney and Shoreditch,
and with regard to the financial part of the
question the Commissioners made the same offer
as they made to South London, viz., to give £1 for
each pound collected up to a sum of £200,000.
Resulting from this expression of the Commissioners'
opinion, a Conference of representative men
of the parishes indicated, including most of the
Members of Parliament for the various Boroughs,
was held in July at the house of Mr. Percy
Bunting, to formulate a scheme for North London
including therein the Boroughs of Hackney,
Islington St.Pancras and Finsbury. A Deputation
subsequently waited on the Charity Commissioners,
and a Meeting was afterwards held at the Westminster
Palace Hotel, when the organization of a
Committee was proceeded with. Largely attended
Meetings were subsequently held in various parts
of North London—the Finsbury Meeting at the
Holborn Town Hall, on 7th December, when the
Marquis of Lome presided, supported, among
others, by Captain Penton, M.P., Sir Albert Rollit,
M.P.,Earl Compton,Mr. James Rowlands, M.P,, Mr.
B. Lucraft, and the Rev. J. H. Rose, M.A., but since
that time to the close of the year to which the
report relates, no perceptible advance has been
made in the matter.