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pany would undertake to supply electricity for lighting purposes
at 4½d. per unit and for power at 2½d. per unit. The application
was not proceeded with.
Streatham
Vestry Offices.
81.—These premises formerly used as the Streatham Vestry
Offices and latterly as a rate collectors' office, have
been sold by auction and the proceeds of the sale
will be applied to the repayment of outstanding loans. An office
for the rate collectors has been provided at the Council's
premises, No. 158, Streatham High Road.
Purchase of
Property.
82.—In consequence of the difficulties experienced by the
Council in purchasing property the following byelaw,
similar to that of the London County Council
on the same subject, has been made by this Council, viz.:—
"Whenever a Committee is desirous of purchasing property which
"can be legally acquired, and is of opinion that exceptional circum"stances
render it prejudicial to the Council's interest that particulars as
"to locality and value should be made public by reporting fully to the
"Council, the Committee shall, in the first instance, bring the matter
"before the General Purposes Committee, and if that Committee, by a
"majority of the whole Committee, or three-fourths of those present
"(the Members present being a majority of the whole Committee),
"concur in the proposal, the General Purposes Committee shall then
"send a memorandum, setting forth the circumstances of the case to the
"Finance Committee, with a view to that Committee submitting an
"estimate of the amount of the liability involved, with any observations
"they may wish to make upon the financial bearings of the proposal;
"and the report of the Finance Committee shall be considered by the
"Council simultaneously with the report of the General Purposes Com"mittee
containing the recommendation, but not containing such parti"culars
as would lead to the identification of the property. In the
"event of the Council adopting the recommendation of the General
"Purposes Committee, the Executive Committee shall report full parti"culars
as soon as practicable."
83.—The premises No. 215, Balham High Road at present
used as the offices of the Surveyor for the Eastern District have
been purchased by the Council.
Hours of
Polling.
84.—The Council presented a petition to the Local Government
Board in favour of the hours of polling at
Borough Council Elections being from 8 a.m. to
9 p.m. instead of from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.