MR. MACDONALD CAMERON (&c.) Wick,asked the honourable Member for North West Staffordshire, Whether he has considered the propriety of removing the brick wall round Kew Gardens, in the Kew and Richmond Road; and, whether he is aware that local residents, anxious for this improvement, have offered to pay a pro rata contribution?
MR. LEVESON GOWER (A LORD of the TREASURY) (Stafford, N.W.)The question of the propriety of removing 1300 this brick wall has been repeatedly raised during the last 10 years, and has been considered by successive First Commissioners. The brick wall could not be removed without injury to the garden, and without exposing many of the valuable shrubs in it to the destructive effects of easterly winds and dust. Nothing is known at the Office of Works of any offer on the part of the inhabitants of Kew to pay a pro rata contribution towards the improvement, nor, in the circumstances I have mentioned, would such an offer affect the case.