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consider it necessary to trouble a deputation to attend here with
reference to the matter.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) H. C. MUNRO,
Assistant Secretary.
E. M. Prescott, Esq.,
Fulham Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W.
The following letter was submitted to the General Purposes Committee
:—
Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W.,
3rd December, 1906.
Dear Sir,
Combined Drainage.
Eeferring to the Conference of Metropolitan Borough Councils
held at the Fulham Town Hall on the 21st May last on the subject of
Combined Drainage, and to the joint Memorial presented to the
Local Government Board as the result of such Conference, urging
the necessity of amending legislation being introduced at an early
date to deal with this question, I beg to transmit hereunder copy of a
letter I have now received from the Local Government Board hereon,
viz.:—
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.,
20th November, 1906.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to advert to
your letter of the 6th instant, with reference to the question of
Combined Drainage, and in reply to state that the Board are not
at present in a position to promise to introduce legislation on the
subject.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) NOEL T. KEBSHAW,
Assistant Secretary.
E. M. Prescott, Esq.,
Fulham Town Hall.
Having regard to the importance of the subject, and to the
unsatisfactory nature of the reply from the Local Government Board,