§ MR. WHITWELLasked the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Whether the hoarding connected with the apparently discontinued New Opera House on the Embankment will soon be removed, as it has for a long 1639 time been an obstruction to the footpath?
SIR JAMES M'GAREL HOGGSir, in answer to the Question of the hon. Member, I beg to inform him that the time fixed for the final completion of the New Opera House is the 29th September next. Of course, it is hopeless to expect that it will be finished by then; but until that date it does not seem expedient to the Metropolitan Board to take any steps with regard to it. I will take care that the attention of the Board is directed to the matter, and I have already had notice given to Mr. Mapleson of the hon. Member's Question.