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with a view to obtaining for London by real and active competition
an effective telephone service at a reasonable charge. The resolutions
were considered by the Council, but, the matter having been
settled by Parliament, no further steps were taken on the subject.
Boundaries.
68.—The Mayor and Alderman Ennis represented the Council on
a deputation which waited upon the President of
the Local Government Board on the 2nd July in
favour of the promotion of legislation to make the boundaries of the
Metropolitan Boroughs conterminous for all purposes. The
London Elections Bill now before Parliament would make the
Parliamentary areas conterminous with the areas of Metropolitan
Boroughs, and would authorise the Board of Education to alter the
School Board electoral divisions so as to prevent such divisions
cutting the boundaries of parishes. This Council has petitioned
in favour of the Bill.
Steam Boat.
Piers.
69.—The Thames Steamboat Company (1897), Ltd., having given
notice of their intention to run a service of steamboats,
the Council forwarded to the Company a copy
of a resolution passed in December, 1900, to the effect
that the 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 inhabit this district, might take advantage
of it; and suggested that the pier should be improved. The
Company in reply stated that it was their intention that all the
steamers on the Chelsea to Kew service should call at Wandsworth
and Putney piers, and asked that a tablet indicating the position
of Wandsworth pier should be fixed near the new approach to
Wandsworth bridge. The Council undertook to fix the noticeboard,
and asked the Company to arrange for all their steamers
to call at Wandsworth and Putney piers. The proposed service
of steamers was not, however, started.
Fee for
information
relating to
Paving charges
Sanitary
notices, Sic.
70.—The General Purposes Committee having had under consideration
the subject of the great and increasing
number of applications, by solicitors and others, for
information relating to payment of " new street"
paving charges, notices under the Public Health
(London) Act, rating and similar matters, the Council