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The Council concurred in the views contained in the resolutions
and decided to support the application of the Trustees to
the Charity Commissioners.
The Charity Commissioners have since prepared a new draft
scheme which proposes to add the following words to the Article
30, viz.:—
"If and so long as a local authority, to whom on their making such
"provision as aforesaid any income would be payable under this clause,
"shall fail or refuse to make such provision, the income which but for
"such failure or refusal would be payable to such local authority shall
"be applied in the provision of pensions in addition to those hereinafter
"prescribed and subject to similar conditions."
The Council informed the Charity Commissioners that it did not
object to the draft scheme and would take no action with respect
to the portion of the charities applicable to the repair of Streatham
High Road.
Wandsworth Charities. 18.—Pursuant to section 2 of the Borough of Wandsworth
(Wandsworth) Scheme Alderman Rucker, and
Councillors Buchanan, Littlechild, Lorden,
and Luscombe have been appointed by the Council Representative
Trustees of the Wandsworth Consolidated Charities to fill
vacancies caused by effluxion of time.
Wandsworth Technical Institute. 19.—Councillors Luscombe and Robinson have been
appointed by the Council Members of the
Governing Body of the Wandsworth Technical
Institute.
Weir Hospital. 20.—The Council also re-appointed Alderman Dickinson
and Councillors Penfold and Welton its
representatives on the Committee to administer
the Weir Trust.
Wandsworth Town Hall. 21.—The London County Council having granted the
licences for stage plays at the Town Hall and the
Tooting Vestry Hall, subject to this Council undertaking
to provide an iron or steel fire-resisting curtain to the
stages there, the Council decided in view of the cost of complying
with the County Council's requirement and of the few applications