§ MR. AIRDI beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works if arrangements could be made for allowing carriage traffic during the season to cross Hyde Park until 2 a.m.?
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. HERBERT GLADSTONE, Leeds, W.It is impossible for me to entertain this proposal, on account of the great extra cost and inconvenience which would be involved in lighting, watching, and fencing the roadway. It would be most undesirable to keep the whole park open later than at 373 present, and gates would have to be provided where the road across the Serpentine intersects the other roads.