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Post Office
Tooting.
66.—It being proposed to erect a new sorting office on the
site of the Lawns, Upper Tooting Road, the Council
pointed out to the Postmaster-General the increase
in the population of the Parish of Tooting and the large area
served from Tooting for postal purposes and asked him to establish
a district post office in Tooting High Street. The PostmasterGeneral,
however, regretted that at present the amount of post
office business was not sufficient to justify the large additional
expense that would be involved, and stated that the business was
spread over a wide area served by 6 sub-post offices, at none of
which was the business nearly sufficient to warrant the cost of a
branch post office and no two of which could be closed if a branch
office were established, and that the site of the proposed sorting
office was not suitable for an office for the public.
Unemployed.
67.—Alderman Anderson and Councillor Cewey were
appointed the Council's representatives to attend a
conference convened by the London County Council
to consider the lack of employment in January last, when the following
resolutions were passed.
(a) That the County Council be recommended to consider if the
immigration of the unemployed into London is sufficiently
serious to warrant it in addressing county, borough, district,
and parish councils warnings regarding the overcrowded state
of the labour market in London, and in taking any other
steps the Council may deem advisable to make the state of
the London labour market as widely known as possible.
(b) That as the recent cold weather showed how near we are to
exceptional distress of a very grave kind, the conference
declares that in its opinion local authorities in co-operation
with the Government, should consider what steps can be taken
to provide work of public utility so as to keep great numbers
of the people profitably employed when private industry fails
to do so, and with that end in view the conference recommends
as follows:—
(i.) That the London County Council and the Metropolitan
Boroughs should draw up schedules of improvements
and other work which, if immediately undertaken,
would be to the public benefit, and classify the work
so as to show what part of it should be borne by the