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Council to make representations to the Local Government Board as to
the manner in which the last-mentioned provisions are administered.
The Bill also proposed to authorise the County Council to enter into
agreements for the exchange of lands adjoining or near open spaces, to
extend the time for the widening of York Road, Battersea and
Wandsworth, until August, 1908. to prevent the carrying on for the
purposes of private gain registries for the employment of female
servants or of a theatrical or music hall employment agency without
a license from the London County Council, and to authorise Metropolitan
Borough Councils which are authorised to supply and are
supplying electrical energy to supply and fix wires, fittings and
apparatus at the premises of their customers or prospective customers.
50. This Council petitioned against the Bill and suggested that
power to acquire the land at Putney Heath Lane should only be given
upon condition that that thoroughfare should be widened to 45 feet in
front of the land in question, that the provision relating to the Sale
of Food and Drugs Acts would serve no useful purpose and would tend
to embarrass Sanitary Authorities in the performance of their duties ;
that the suggested powers for the inspection of cows and the
prohibition of the supply of milk from dairies where cows are suspected
of suffering from tuberculosis should be exercised jointly by the County
Council and Metropolitan Borough Councils, and that the power
proposed to be given to the County Council to make representations
to the Local Government Board as to the manner in which Sanitary
Authorities carry out their duties under the Bill should only be
conferred in the event of default being made by a Sanitary Authority
and should be limited to the district of such Authority.
51. With regard to the proposed acquisition of land at Putney
Heath Lane the County Council undertook that the proposed
widening should be considered by the Improvements Committee but
owing to the opposition of residents in the neighbouihood the clause
relating to the acquisition of the land in question was withdrawn.
The clauses relating to the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, and milk
supply were also withdrawn. The date for the completion of
the widening of York Road has been altered to August, 1906, and
a proviso added to the clause relating to the wiring of premises for
electric current to the effect that the charges for such wiring, &c., shall
be so adjusted as to meet any expenditure by the Borough Council
under the powers of the clause, and that the charges for wiring and