Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-03 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE

In connection with the proceeding 4 of this Committee
the memorial of the owners and occupiers of houses in
Pembroke-place, praying that a curtain portion of that
street be Macadamized, was read. It was published in our
impression of Tuesday.

Mr. Alderman DOVER moved the confirmation
of the proceedings. an 1 in doing so referred to the
memorial which had ju3t been read. There could
,--be no doubt, he said, that the memorial was ti)
--work of one hand, for the committee had
reason to believe that the neighbourho3l were perfectly
satisfied with the street. The committee were about to
Macadamize the street in front of the church and Lying-in
Hospital, but if they granted the special act of grace atk,:d
by the memorialists, where ware they to stop? The
objection tollac Warn was twofold—the expense of laying it
down and keeping it in order. The committee came to
the conclusion that they could not grant the prayer of the
memorial, and unless the Council were prepared to incur a
large periodical expense in the renewal of such pavement,
they would support the resolution of the committee.
Mr. ANTHONY seconded the confirmation of the proceed-
ings.

Mr. J. R. JEFtERY urged that the committee could not
consistently refuse the prayer of the memorial, seeing that
they had already admitted the annoyance in the street
from its being altcgeiher paved with square sets, by
ordering that the portion in front of the church ani hos-
pital to be Macadamised It was said that the memorial
was the work of one hand No doubt it was drawn up by
one person, but several of the occupiers of houses in the
street called upon him, and complained of the annoyance
from noise which they there experienced. But if they
were to have square set pavement, let it be general
throughout the town, and let them no longer have the
inviduous and unjust distinctions which were made in this
rasp ct t between certain streets. The committee knew
well that they dare not pave Bold Street, or any of the
other leading streets in the town with square sets. (Hear,
hear.) The public would not tolerate it for a day, and
mhjethen should the inhabitants of Pembroke-place be

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made to suffer from an annoyance, the existence of which,
would not be permitted in other streets of the town. He
would move as an amendment, that the the prayer of the
memorial be granted, and that the Health Committee be
instructed to Macadamize one third of Pembroke place.
Mr. W. EARLE seconded the amendment, and observed
that while the public were willing to pay for such acccom-
modation, the principal streets oug'at to be Macadamized.
(Hear, hear )
Mr. Alderman Rumen objected to their again reverting
to the Macadam pavement,,, because of its great
expense.
..11r. HODSON urged that if they Macadamized Pembroke
place, they could not r fuse Macadamizing Water street,
where the occupiers of offices frequently comp7ained of ihe
noise from the square set pavement.
Mr PICTON replied that the traffic in Water-street was
slow and heavy, and, therefore, the square-set pavement
was necessary there. He would have square-sets in all
streets of slow and heavy traffic, but where it was light
and quick, a portion of the streets should be macadamised.
He did not know the principle on which the Committee
acted in regard to the pavement of tho streets, but he
would put the matter to the test, and would give notice
hat, in the event of the prayer of the memorial being
refused. he would move that Bollstreet and Chu:eh-street
be paved with square-sets.
Mr. JOHNSON supported the prayer of the memorial,
and admitted that the square sets caused a much greater
noise than in the first instance he expected they would do.
Mr. ALDERMAN HOLME expressed it as his opinion that
in all streets over which light end quick traffic passed,
some portion should be Macadamized.
Mr. ALDEttMAN DOVER replied that the question they
had now to determine was not whether Pembroke-place
would be Macadamised, but whether they would have
nearly the whole town Macadamised, and-pay for their
pavement ls. the square yard, instead of as at present a
fraction of a penny.
Tho amendment was then put to the vote, and Carried
by 31 to 15.
Tb e voting was as follows :
_ _

For the amendment—The Mayor; Aldermen : Samuel
Holme, Raymond W. Houghton, J: Bramley-Moore, M.P.,
Richard C. Gardner, J. Hayward Turner, Joseph Cooper,
Thomas Robinson, George H Horsfall, Thomas Bold,
William Preston, William !Bennett; Councillors : Hilton
Halhead. John Stewart, James Robertson, John Fa.rnworth,
Joseph Kitchen, James Mellor, James Johnson, James R.
Jeffery, JaMes A. Picton, William Earle, Th omas Wagstaff,
Alexander Shand, John Lawrence, Charles T. Bowring,
James Ryley, James Steains, Joseph G. Livingston,
Thomas Littledale, Charles Turner.-31.

Against the amendment—Aldermen: James Parker,
Thomas Thwer, Thomas Chilton; Councillors: Thomas
Vernon, William H. Anthony, Francis A. Clint, John
Aikin. T. Llewelyn Hodspn, Robert Hutchison, John B.
B:ancker, Samuel R. Graves, Roger Haydork, James
Crellin, Daniel Crosthwaite, Thomas D. Anderson.-15.
Tha other proceedings of the committee were con.
firmed.