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Unemployed.
85.—The Council considered the subject of the desirability of
establishing a Labour Bureau for the unemployed
residing in the Borough and came to the conclusion
that it was not desirable to establish such a bureau, but decided to
address a circular to employers of labour in the Borough stating
that the Council would be willing to post outside its various depots
and institutions intimations as to labour requirements if the
employers would furnish the Council with the necessary information.
The circular was accordingly sent to 418 employers of
labour. Three firms notified their wants (girls for box-making,
gardener's labourers, and Venetian blind painters respectively)
which were accordingly posted outside the Council's depots and
institutions.
Telegraphic
facilities.
Wandsworth.
86.—The Postmaster-General was asked to give greater
facilities for telephonic and telegraphic communication
in the district between High Street, Wandsworth,
and Bellevue Road telegraph offices, and it was suggested
that the wants of the case would be met by making the Post office
in Barmouth Road a complete telegraphic and telephonic station.
The Postmaster-General stated that having carefully considered
the matter he could not authorise the delivery of telegrams from
the Barmouth Road office; that a change might with advantage
be made as regards the district now served from Southfields on
Sundays and on week-days after 8 p.m. and that it was proposed
to open a call office in connection with the post office telephone
system at Barmouth Road post office as soon as the necessary
arrangements could be made.
Port of London
Sanitary
Authority.
87.—An Inquiry was held at the Guildhall by the Local Government
Board into the proposal to extend the area
of the Port Sanitary Authority, so that such authority
might exercise jurisdiction in the matter of unsound
food, over other wharves, besides those being within any
dock forming part of or abutting upon the Port of London. This
Council and other Borough Councils objected to the transfer of
powers of inspection from them to the Port Sanitary Authority,
and after a Public Inquiry had been held the Local Government
Board decided not to sanction the proposal.