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worth, as it was thought it might be the means of
bringing into communication employers and persons out
of work. The bureau was kept open for three months,
during which time 165 men and 35 women were
registered. Handbills were circulated and posted
throughout the District giving notice of the establishment
of the bureau, but only eight employers of labour
inspected the register, and the only person who found
employment through the agency of the bureau was a
servant girl. The cost incurred was £20 9s. 6d.
Streatham Hill
Tramways.
The London Tramways Company having
given notice of their intention to introduce
a Bill into Parliament for the extension of their
lines along Streatham High Road to Streatham Common
South, the matter was carefully considered by the
General Purposes Committee, who decided to recommend
the Board to consent to the introduction of the Bill,
subject to the Company entering into an agreement to
construct double lines throughout the whole length of
the proposed extension, to pay the cost of widening
the roads so as to admit of double lines being laid,
and to insert in the Bill the Board's usual protective
clauses. In view of the great expense which would
be involved in making the necessary widenings in
portions of the Streatham High Road, the Company asked
for the consent of the Board to the construction of the
proposed tramways as far as the Public Library, the
remainder to be for the present abandoned, and expressed
their willingness to accept the Board's conditions so far
as they applied up to the point mentioned. The Board
consented to the proposal, and the Bill, as amended,
has now passed through the House of Commons.
Croydon
Tramways Company.
The Croydon Tramways Company also
gave notice of intention to apply for a
provisional order for the extension of their tramways from