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Metropolitan
Water Companies
(Amendment of
Acts).
This Bill was also promoted by the London
County Council, and had for its object the
extension till the 6th June, 1906, of the
provisions contained in the Staines Reservoir,
&c., Acts, 1896 and 1898, to the effect that the
purchase price to be paid tor the undertakings of the
New River, West Middlesex, and Grand Junction
Water Companies should not be enhanced by any
advantages conferred on such Companies by the
Acts above-mentioned in the event of such purchase
being effected otherwise than by agreement before the
14th of August, 1903. The Bill received the Royal
Assent on the 26th July.
Thames Piers
& River
Service Bill.
By this Bill the London County Council
sought powers to acquire, take over, and
administer the river piers and landing
stages on the Thames, for constructing additional
piers and altering the location of piers, and to establish
an efficient steamboat service on the river. The
County Council was informed that this Council was
of opinion that in any scheme for river passenger
steamers Wandsworth should be included as a place
of call, and especially so in the early morning and
evening so that working men, who largely inhabited
the district, might take advantage of it, and, that the
pier should be improved. The Bill was, however,
rejected by the House of Commons on second reading.
London,
Brighton &
South Coast
Railway
Company Bill.
This Bill authorizes the Company to acland
near the bridge carrying the
Company's railway over Eardley Road,
Streatham (including parr of the River Graveney)
for the purpose of the construction of sidings
there. The Council suggested that provision should
be made for adequate means of communication between
the districts on either side of the Company's railway