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the Improvement, to which the Metropolitan Board agreed to
contribute one half the cost, to be carried out. But there is reason
to believe that it will be completed during the Autumn.
Sun Street.
Attention is called to the table (pages 12 & 13) furnished by the
Metropolitan Board, shewing the financial aspect of this Improvement.
All the land has been let or sold. A sum of £10,752 has
been written off the Loan above the annual payments, which were
spread over fifty years, and a sum derived from rents, &c., of
£2,200 was paid by the Board direct to the Vestry. In each
of these cases a similar sum was accredited to the Metropolitan
Board. The total unpaid balance of Loan due from the Vestry
was at Lady-day £43,860.
Metropolitan Improvements in Shoreditch.
The Metropolitan Board in their last Report in reference to
the Shoreditch Improvements state:—
"A plot in Bethnal Green Road (not in Shoreditch, but
"near) and one in Great Eastern Street, both reserved for
"working-class dwellings, were sold by auction during the
"year, the former for £2,020 the latter for £2,500, the
"purchasers binding themselves to erect suitable dwellings
"for working persons. Part of another plot in Great Eastern
"Street was also sold by private treaty in December, for the
"same purposes, for £1,272. The whole of the building land
"in Great Eastern Street has now been let; twenty-four
"plots which remained unlet at the end of last year having
"been disposed of.''
It may be gathered from the above that no further progress
has been made in respect to the letting of the vacant plots in the
High Street.