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munity, is nevertheless of opinion that the expenditure of the Board has
been unduly excessive and has become a very heavy and oppressive
burden upon the ratepayers, and that action is urgently called for with a
view to the curtailment of such expenditure.
2.—That in the opinion of this Conference the time has arrived
when an enquiry should be instituted, either by a Royal Commission or
a Select Committee of one of the Houses of the Legislature, into the
expenditure of the School Board for London and also into the present
incidence of the rate levied to meet the expenses incurred in the
administration of the Elementary Education Acts in the Metropolis.
3.—That in the opinion of this Conference the present School
Board Divisions are inconvenient, and the Parliamentary Boroughs as
set out in the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, should be substituted
therefor.
4.—That the Register to be employed for School Board purposes
should be the Register of Parochial Electors as defined by the Local
Government Act, 1894.
5.—That a copy of the resolutions passed by this Conference be
communicated to the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the President and Vice-President of the Committee of Council on
Education, the School Board for London, and the Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis, and that the Prime Minister be asked to
receive a Deputation from this Conference to support the representations
contained in the said resolutions.
Proposed site for
Board School,
Broomhill Road.
The School Board for London having
scheduled a site in Broomhill Road,
Wandsworth, for a Board school, the Board appointed
a Deputation to wait upon the School Board objecting
thereto, on the grounds that it would injuriously affect
the existing schools in the neighbourhood and that the
site was unsuitable and dangerous for the children who
would attend the school, and they suggested alternative
sites in Mapleton Road and Putney Bridge Road, west
of the London and South Western Railway bridge.
The Deputation attended before the School Board
and presented a memorial in support of the Board's
views; the School Hoard decided to retain the site in
the schedule but stated that efforts would be made to
select a suitable alternative site which could be.