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Rosewater Dishes. 10.—Alderman Rucker also presented to the Council two
silver rose-water dishes with border of Arabesque
designs in the Italian style, and panels of Medusa
heads and Dolphins chased in low relief. In the centre treated
in the same manner are the Arms of the Borough. The dishes
bear the following inscription, "Metropolitan Borough of Wands"worth;
Presented by Alderman Rucker, 1903."
Mayors, Commemoration of. 11.—Councillor Buchanan presented to the Council a marble
tablet for recording the names of the Mayors of
the Borough, upon which had been inscribed the
names of the first three Mayors. The tablet which has been
erected in the ground floor corridor at the Council House was
unveiled by the Mayor on the 14th October last.
Church Services. 12.—Upon the invitation of the Lord Bishop of Rochester
the Mayor, Aldermen, Councillors and principal
officers of the Council attended in state with the
Councils of other Metropolitan Boroughs in South London a
service at the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Southwark, on
Sunday the 10th January last. The Council and principal
officers also attended in state services at the following churches
in the Borough, viz.:—
21st Nov. 1903 Parish Church of Wandsworth, All Saints, High Street.
31st Jan 1904 Ditto Streatham, St. Leonard,
Streatham High Road.
14th Feb. 1904 Ditto Clapham, Holy Trinity,
Clapham Common.
10th April, 1904. Ditto Putney, St. Mary, High Street.
8th May, 1904 Ditto Tooting, St. Nicholas, Church Lane.
29th May, 1904 Congregational Church, Grafton Square, Clapham.
26th June, 1904 St. Anne's, St. Anne's Hill, Wandsworth.
War Memorial. 13.—On the 23rd August the Mayor and other Members of
the Council and the principal officers attended the
unveiling by General Oliphant, C.V.O., C.B., of a
memorial which had been erected in Tooting Parish Church to
the men from Tooting who fell in the South African war.