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FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF
THE BOARD OF WORKS
FOR THE
WANDSWORTH DISTRICT,
Being for the Year ended 25th March, 1898.
Royal
Commission on
Water Supply-
The Royal Commission appointed to enquire
into the subject of the Water Supply
within the limits of the Metroplitan Water
Companies, referred to in last year's annual report,
having asked for the views of this Board on the subject,
the following statement of their views was resolved
upon, viz. :—
[a.)—This Board has always been and is now in favour of a Water
Trust being formed for the purpose of purchasing the Metropolitan
Water Companies' undertakings, and of supplying the Metropolis (or
the water area included in such Companies' powers) with water.
(b)—This Board was one of the public bodies who promoted in
the year 1891 the Bill intituled "a Bill to place the water supply of the
" Metropolis and the adjoining districts under the control of a public
"authority, and to make further provision for such supply." (Bill 178).
(c.)—This Board's views on the subject were embodied in a draft
Bill prepared by the Executive Committee of the above-mentioned
bodies, of which the representative of this Board was a member, but
such draft Bill was not adopted as so prepared, and the Bill introduced
into the House of Commons, though based on the same principle,
differed considerably in important details from the views of the Board.