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ably received by the Council, who finally fixed the names as follows :—Lamaha, 
Church, Oronoque and New Garden streets in continuation of those of same name 
in adjoining districts. 
Anira street—a tributary creek of the Lamaha. 
Laluni street—a tributary creek of the Lamaha. 
Crown street—after the Imperial Crown. 
Almond _ street—Botanical. 
Forshaw street—after George Anderson Forshaw, solicitor, died 1889, many 
times Mayor of the city. One of his sons was the first member of Council elected 
for the new Ward. 
Rose stree —after Hon. Peter Rose, M.C.P., one of Guiana’s “‘ strong men * 
in the Court of Policy, and contemporary of John Croal. 
Irving street—after Sir Henry Turner Irving, K.C.M.G., Governor 1882-87. 
It is somewhat remarkable that the name of our late beloved Queen is not 
perpetuated in any of the streets of Georgetown, though, of course, we have it 
in the Victoria Law Courts and Victoria Square in Queenstown Ward. At the 
time of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 a suggestion was made to alter 
the name of the Brick Dam to the more euphonic title of Victoria Avenue, but 
the proposal was not favourably entertained. 
Some thirty years ago I travelled out from England with a young Mexican 
who gave me a friendly message to one of the Fathers at the Roman Catholic 
Presbytery, who had been one of his masters at Stonyhurst College: he added 
that he had received a letter from him from some strange address which sounded 
like a ‘‘ cuss” word—‘ Be damned, or some such name!” Of course, I ex- 
plained the position, which somewhat modified his opinion of his late master’s 
residence. 
There is, I believe, a Victoria Road and a King Edward VII street in the 
adjoining suburban village of Albouystown, which probably some day in the 
future will be incorporated within the city of Georgetown, 
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During the course of my municipal duties extending over 32 years, I have 
had naturally to deal with many charts and plans of Georgetown and its dis- 
tricts, ancient and modern. The most popular one now in use is probably the 
plan published a few years ago by “ The Argosy ’’ Company, which, I am sorry 
to say, bears my name—‘ compiled from various sources under the direction 
of Luke M. Hill and extended and corrected to date ’’—but unfortunately no date 
is given (!) which rather detracts from its value. In order to rectify this omis- 
sion I may mention here, for record, that the date which ought to have been 
printed was 1905 ; but neither the compiler nor the draughtsman was responsible 
for this serious omission : the draughtsman, Mr. Robert Mottershead, placed his 
name with the date in the lower right hand corner of the original plan, and which 
must have been removed by the London printers. 
In concluding this paper on the street names of Georgetown, I take the oppor- 
tunity of acknowledging the aid of our Assistant Secretary, Mr. J. Rodway, 
and Mr, Hermann Vyfhuis in solving some of the more obscure street names, 
