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Appendix IV. to Annual Report.
Condon Street Improvements Conference.
Report of a Conference of Metropolitan Borough Councils,
convened by the Camberivell Borough Council, for the
]purpose of considering the varied treatment of Metropolitan
Borough Councils by the London County Council in fixing
the amounts of the local and county contributions towards
the cost of improvements carried out in London.
To this Conference, convened upon the motion of
Councillor J. R. Tomkins, under the circumstances set forth
on page 72 of this Report, the following 23 Boroughs appointed
delegates:—Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Camberwell, Chelsea,
Deptford, Finsbury, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith,
Hampstead, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth, Lewisham,
Paddington, Poplar, Shoreditch, Stepney, St. Marylebone,
St. Pancras, Wandsworth, Westminster and Woolwich.
An exhaustive return, showing in detail the cost of and
the contributories to every street improvement in London
since 1889, of which return the accompanying table is a
summary, was prepared by the Town Clerk of Camberwell
from the official reports of the London County Council, and
placed before the Conference, together with other material.
Two meetings were held at the Town Hall, Camberwell,
on Thursday, March 19th, and Thursday, April 23rd, 1903.
The Conference appointed The Worshipful the Mayor of
Camberwell (Councillor Goddard Clarke, J.P., L.C.C.),
Chairman, and Mr. C. William Tagg, Town Clerk of
Camberwell, Secretary.
At the first meeting a Committee was appointed to
consider what principle the Conference should ask the London
County Council to adopt with reference to improvements, and
to consider any other suggestions which the delegates might
desire to make. The following gentlemen formed the Committee,
viz.:—Alderman MacGregor, St. Pancras ; Councillor
Irons, Chelsea; Alderman Tyler, Bermondsey; Councillor
Dickson (The Mayor), Deptford; Councillor Tomkins, Camberwell ;
Councillor Hunter, Woolwich; Councillor Lorden,