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operations during the past year, a report of its proceedings being
appended.
Upon the application of the Central (Unemployed) Body,
the Council on the nth July, 1906, transferred to that body
under the provisions of the Act, the labour bureau which
the Council had established under the Labour Bureau (London)
Act. Mr. James Hampson, the Superintendent thereof, was,
at the same time, taken over by the Central Body. The bureau
is now known as the Employment Exchange.
Subsequently the Council, on the request of the Central
Body, nominated five members to serve on the local Advisory
Committee of the Exchange.
Nuisances from Motor Vehicles.
The attention of the Borough Council having been
directed to the serious nuisances occasioned to residents in the
Borough, more particularly to those whose premises front the
main thoroughfares, by the noise, smoke, smell and oil emitted
from motor vehicles, the Council made urgent representations
to the Commissioner of Police thereon; and was represented
at a conference of Metropolitan Borough Councils, at which a
series of resolutions was passed which were submitted to the
Home Secretary, the President of the Local Government
Board, and the Commissioner of Police, urging the desirability
of early effect being given to such resolutions, by legislation or
otherwise. It is understood that these Authorities are giving
the matter careful consideration.
Combined Drainage.
The Council, on 30th May, 1907, concurred in a resolution
passed at a conference of Metropolitan Borough Councils, convened
by the Fulham Borough Council, upon the subject of
combined drainage, urging the President of the Local Government
Board to give the subject of the unsatisfactory state of the
law relating to combined drainage in London his serious consideration,
with the view of a Bill to amend the law being
introduced into Parliament at an early date. This resolution
was embodied in the form of a joint memorial to the President
of the Local Government Board, to which the seals of the
Borough Councils represented at the conference were affixed,
and the memorial was duly presented by a deputation.
The Local Government Board wrote to the Town Clerk of
Fulham on 20th November, 1906, stating that they were not in
a position to promise to introduce legislation on the subject, at
present. Further efforts are, however, being made to induce
the Board to take the matter up.