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Mandsworth Public Libraries
Divisional Committee Report for the Year ended
31st March, 1901.
To pay for the completion of Allfarthing Lane Branch
Library application was made for sanction to a
loan of £300. The necessary sanction was received from
the Local Government Board, and dated 15th March,
1900, and in July, the Provident Life Office advanced the
loan on mortgage to the Commissioners. The late
Mr. G. W. Barnard very kindly negociated the loan free
of charge to the Board.
It was decided to close the Lending Libraries on the
Saturday before Easter in each year, the News Rooms
to be open as usual.
In May, the commencement of the proceedings
under the London Government Act, 1899, took place,
and from that time till the election of the Borough
Council in November, 1900, constant communications
were received from the Privy Council Office. On behalf
of the Commissioners, the Clerk objected to the inclusion
of such parts of Wandsworth as College Park and
Spencer Park within the proposed Borough of Battersea.
The Vestry in July, re-elected Messrs. G. W. Eccles,