speedily after locking up a prisoner; and in having a place where an officer could always be found. It would also be a great convenience if apartments could be provided for a sergeant and one or two constables. One of the fire-engines of the borough could also be kept there. The working expenses would not be great, and towards which, Government would allow a quarter.
Coun. Howell thought the price was a very high one, but if the site was adapted to what was wanted he would not object. Ald. Ross thought a site at the top of Western road was preferable to the one fixed upon. The question had indirectly been rather made one of a friendly feeling towards St. Leonards. In committee Mr. Putland had said his (the speaker’s) opposition to what was proposed arose from a petty feeling against St. Leonards. He had never opposed St. Leonards except in the postal question. He would just as soon see it flourish as any other part of the borough. Her prosperity was the prosperity of the other part, and any improvement there meant the improvement amongst the tradesmen of Hastings generally. The question, however, he thought had not been thoroughly gone into, and on that ground he would oppose it. – Coun. Bromley would also vote against it. With the small amount of crime there was in the borough, he thought their present accommodation was enough for the next ten or twenty years. – Ald. Ginner, upon the whole, was favourable to the project and to the site that had been recommended. Coun. Duke thought it was not wanted, and he could not consent to spend the people’s money in that way. – Coun. Poole would also vote against it, whether it were proposed for east or west. – Coun. Winter could not sympathise with Messrs. Poole and Duke. The object which the Government had in inspecting the police was to get that body into the most efficient state, and he supposed Capt. Willis in making the recommendation to the Watch Committee was actuated by the wish to see the police duties carried out in the best possible form. He certainly must support the proposal. Coun. Gausden, in reply, said it appeared to him that the chief objection was the price. He could only say that the present occupier of the land would be glad to purchase it at the price, and he himself would be equally willing to give the sum named. – The voting shewed 16 for adopting the report, and only four against it.
Fencing the Parade. At the same meeting (Sept. 6th) the Mayor informed the Board that Mr. James Burfield had fallen over the parade near the Infirmary on the previous evening, and narrowly escaped serious injury. He (the Mayor) suggested that an iron railing, similar to that on the Marine parade should there be affixed. The subject was referred to the Roads Committee, with power to act. The said -
