§ MR. THOROLD ROGERSasked the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Whether, in view of the lack of employment in South London, there is any immediate prospect that the new road from Southwark Bridge Road to St. George's Church, for which it appears the Board of Works has obtained powers, will be taken in hand and completed?
§ SIR JAMES M'GAREL-HOGG,in reply, said, the property required for the improvement referred to had been either cleared away or purchased by the Board; and on the completion of one or two outstanding cases he trusted that in a few weeks from that date the Board would be in a position to remove the remaining buildings. He might, perhaps, be allowed to add that the provisions introduced into the Act authorizing this street, as to re-housing the labouring classes, created a great and, indeed, insuperable difficulty to the progress of the street, and that the difficulty was increased by the grant of powers to the South-Eastern Railway Company in 1882 to take for their line various properties which could otherwise have been appropriated to re-housing the labouring classes.