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Local
Government
of
London.
61.—On the 6th March a memorial sealed by 22 Metropolitan
Borough Councils (including Wandsworth)
was presented to the Lord Chancellor, calling attention
to the difficulties attending the performance of
the statutory duties of the Metropolitan Borough Councils owing
to the numerous and involved nature of the statutes which they
are called upon to administer; and urging that legislation might
be introduced at an early date for the consolidation of such statutes.
Postal
Arrangements.
62.—The Council asked the Post Office Authorities to provide
additional facilities to the public of the Borough
of Wandsworth for posting letters for the country
on Sunday afternoon. The Postmaster-General has since
sanctioned arrangements under which letters bearing an additional
fee of ]/2 d., and posted in a special box at either the Battersea head
office or Putney branch office before 5 P.M. on Sunday, will be
included in the mails despatched from London on Sunday nights.
Patriotic
Schools,
War dsworth
Common.
63.—In July last the Council called the attention of the
London County Council to the probable expiration
at an early date of the lease of 20 acres of the land
of the Patriotic Commissioners at Wandsworth
Common, and suggested that the County Council should open
negotiations for securing possession thereof for the use of the
public. Attention was also called to the report of the evidence given
before the Joint Committee on Charitable Agencies for the relief of
widows and orphans of soldiers and sailors, to the effect that the
patriotic school and land should be realised at its full value and
suitable accommodation obtained at a less cost in a different
locality, and the County Council was asked in view of the fact
that the land in question formed part of Wandsworth Common
and was devoted to its present purpose upon the understanding
that the school to be established should afford a visible and permanent
memorial of the National generosity which provided the
means for its foundation, to do all in its power to prevent any
dealing with the land which might lead to its ceasing to be an
open space. The matter is still under the consideration of the
London County Council.