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Racing
Traffic.
64.—The attention of the Board of Trade has been called to the
inconvenience caused to regular travellers on the
London & South Western and London, Brighton &
South Coast Railways on the occasion of racing fixtures. The
Board of Trade, having communicated with the Railway Companies
in question, stated that the matter was not one in which they had
any statutory authority to intervene.
Dates of
Elections of
Local Bodies.
65.—A Conference of representatives of Metropolitan Borough
Councils convened by the Holborn Borough Coucil
on the subejct of the dates of elections of Local
Bodies in London, was held at the Holborn Town
Hall on the 17th March, when the following resolutions were
passed, viz.: —
(a) That, in the opinion of this Conference, some re-arrangement
is necessary, with a view, if possible, of obviating the inconvenience
which is caused by frequent elections, and to overcome
the apathy which is at present evinced by the ratepayers of the
County of London in exercising their privileges.
(b) That, in the opinion of this Conference, it would be
advantageous if the elections of the London County Council, the
School Board for London, the Borough Councils and Boards of
Guardians were held, as far as possible, in different years.
Wandsworth
Technical
Institute.
66.—The late Wandsworth Vestry formerly elected three Members
of the Governing Body of the Wandsworth Technical
Institute, and the Putney Vestry one. The period for
which Mr. J. Bell, J.P., one of such Members, was
elected having expired in July, 1901, the Council, as successors to
the Wandsworth Vestry, unanimously re-elected Mr. Bell a Member
of such Governing Body.
Telephones.
67.—A Conference on the subject of the rates to be charged for
telephones, convened by the City Corporation, was
held at the Guildhall, E. C., on the 23rd December
and 13th January last, at which Councillors Henderson and Kipling
attended as the representatives of this Council. Resolutions were
passed asking the Lord Mayor to bring the question of the agreements
with the National Telephone Company and the proposed
Post Office scale of charges before the House of Commons, in
order that the matter might be referred to a Select Committee