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The General Purposes Committee considered an invitation from the
Fulham Borough Council to appoint delegates to a conference of representatives
of Metropolitan Borough Councils on Monday, 21st May, at
4 o'clock, at Fulham Town Hall, for the purpose of approaching by
deputation the President of the Local Government Board and urging
upon him the importance of an alteration of the existing law dealing with
combined drainage, and the advisability of the Government taking action
in the matter.
The General Purposes Committee recommended—
"That Councillors A. H. Darby and J. H. West, with the
Medical Officer of Health and Borough Surveyor, be appointed to
attend the Conference."
Together with the Chairman of the Public Health and Housing
Committee, Mr. Councillor Darby, and Mr. Councillor West, I attended
the Conference of the Metropolitan Borough Councils, held at the
Fulham Town Hall on Monday, the 21st of May, 1906, to consider the
question of the unsatisfactory state of the law with regard to Combined
Drainage, and to urge the President of the Local Government Board to
receive a Deputation representing the Conference with the object of
pressing upon him the necessity of securing an amendment of the law
which now operates so unfairly to the ratepayers of London.
The following resolutions were unanimously agreed to: —
(a) That this Conference of London Borough Councils do
respectfully urge upon the Bt. Hon. 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.
(b) That a deputation be formed to wait upon the President of
the Local Government Board in order to present the foregoing
resolution to him in person, and to urge the views of the Conference
on the subject matter.
(c) That the whole of the delegates appointed to this Conference
form the proposed deputation and that the Councils of the City of
Westminster and Metropolitan Boroughs of Battersea, Chelsea,
Greenwich, Stepney and Wandsworth be invited to appoint representatives
thereon.