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Metropolitan
Borough's
Standing Joint
Committee.
51. A Standing Joint Committee of representatives of the
Metropolitan City and Borough Councils having
been formed to watch over and take steps for
safeguarding the rights, authority, interests and
duties of such Councils as they may bs affected by legislation or
otherwise, and to confer and advise upon matters of common
interest generally, the Mayor, Alderman Linclsey and the Town
Clerk, were appointed this Council's representatives on such
Committee. The Mayor was subsequently elected a member of the
Executive Committee.
National Reserve.
S2. The Council decided to form a National Reserve Committee
for this Borough, consisting of the Mayor, Aldermen
Cresswell, Lindsey and Surgeon Major Robinson,
I.M.D., Councillors Campbell, C.B., Cundall and Sir Frederick
Lance, K.C.B, and Members of. the Wandsworth Military
Committee, with such additional members as might be considered
desirable.
Town Clerk.
53. Mr. H. G. Hills, who had been Town Clerk of the Borough
since the beginning of the Council, having resigned
his appointment, the Council presented him with the following
illuminated address, viz.:—

To Henry George Hills, Esquire.
We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Wandsworth, in regretfully accepting your resignation of the
office of Town Clerk of this Borough, desire to place on record our great
appreciation of your long and distinguished services, not only to this
Borough since it was created in 1900, when you were unanimously
appointed Town Clerk, but also of the Wandsworth District Board of
Works, which preceded this Borough, and of which you were the Assistant
Clerk for nine years, and also Clerk for nearly sixteen years. Some
Members of the Council were members of the District Board, and from
their testimony we are pleased to say that you discharged your duties of
Clerk to that Board in a most efficient manner, and that it was under
many and great obligations to you for the indefatigable assistance you
rendered on the passing of the Act of Parliament for separating the
Parish of Battersea from the other Territory of the Board.