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division of the Union within eight or ten years and as to the provision
of additional accommodation in the meantime, and they were informed
that this Council was in agreement with the proposal of the Guardians
subject to the Borough of Battersea taking over the Infirmary at the
cost price in the event of the division of the Union.
17. In January last, the Council appointed a Special Committee,
Division of consisting of two members from each Ward to consider
the Borough. ancj report as to the advisability of a division of the
Borough. The Committee have not yet reported on the subject.
18. Section 2 (1) of the Education (London) Act, 1903, provides
Education that every Public Elementary School provided by the
Act- Local Education Authority (i.e., the London County
Council), shall have a body of managers ; that the number of these
managers and the manner in which the Schools, in cases where it is
desirable, should be grouped under one body of managers, shall be
determined by the Council of each Borough, after consultation with the
Local Education Authority, and subject to the approval of the Board of
Education ; that two-thirds of such body shall be appointed by the
Borough Council and one-third by the Local Education Authority ;
that due regard shall be had in selecting managers to the inclusion of
women in the proportion of not less than one-third of the whole body
of managers, and in the case of the first body of managers, also of
members chosen from the then existing body of managers.
19. The Council considered the subject of the grouping of
provided schools in this Borough and the appointment of managers
therefor, and informed the London County Council that in its opinion
the whole of the provided schools in the Borough should be placed
under one body of 45 managers appointed in accordance with the
Act, and that for the management of each group of Schools (of which
it was suggested there should be 13) a Committee of not more than
12 managers should be appointed by the body of managers, partly
from themselves and partly from existing managers. The Council
also appointed Aldermen Anderson and Howell and Councillors
Aldridge, Gridley, and Luscombe, to attend a Conference on the
subject of the powers and duties of Metropolitan Borough Councils
under the Education (London) Act, 1903, convened by the Islington
Borough Council. All the Metropolitan Boroughs, with the exception
of Battersea, Camberwell, Greenwich, Kensington, Southwark, Stepney