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when the Cheap Trains Act was passed, whereby the passenger duty was
remitted on all fares not exceeding the rate of one penny a mile, and a
reduction from two to five per cent of the duty on first and second class
fares in certified urban districts, on condition that all railway companies
should provide sufficient workmen's trains for workmen going to and
returning from their work, at such fares and such times between six p.m.
and eight a.m. as may appear to the Board of Trade to be reasonable.
The object of this Bill is to provide for a sufficient service of cheap
trains, and to fix for passengers by all workmen's trains arriving at the
various stations up to eight a.m. a maximum return fare between any
central station and the outer suburbs up to twenty miles. The Royal
Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes strongly urged the
need for cheap workmen's trains to run up to eight o'clock in the
morning.
By reference to the Board of Trade Return to Parliament, May 25th,
1900, it will be seen that with a few exceptions there are no workmen's
trains running up to eight o'clock in the morning—the time laid down by
the Act of 1883.
It is also shown by the same return that the fares charged by some of
the companies are much higher than those proposed by this Bill.
Moveable Dwellings Bill (H.L.).
A Bill as amended (on report) entitled an Act to provide for the
regulation of moveable dwellings was considered by the House of Lords.
WATER.
Water Certificates.
Water certificates were authorised to be given under Section 48 (2)
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891—Fire Brigade Station, Parnell
Road; Fire Brigade Station, Brunswick Road; 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30,
32, 34, 36 and 38, Ridgdale Street, Bow; 68a, East India Dock Road.