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on which the accounts of Local Authorities in England and Wales, &c.
should be kept, is of opinion that it should be strengthened by the addition
of independent members connected with practised accountancy, having
regard to the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on Municipal
Trading.
(4) That a Deputation from this Conference wait upon the President
of the Local Government Board to urge upon him the necessity for giving
effect to the recommendations of this Conference.
47. This Couucil has introduced several amendments in the form
of accounts published this year, with the view of giving the ratepayers
fuller and clearer information as to the receipts and expenditure.
48. Councillor Godfrey Evans was appointed the Council's
representative on a deputation of representatives of
Local Authorities which waited upon the Home Secretary,
on the 29th March, in favour of an amendment of the law relating
to street betting. The Home Secretary suggested to the deputation
that Lord Davey's Bill on the subject, which had been
introduced into the House of Lords for several years past should
be introduced into the House of Commons as a Private Member's Bill,
and stated that he would consult his colleagues as to how far they
would be able to support and give facilities for the Bill. Lord Davey's
Bill has been read a third time in the House of Lords this session.
The Bill provides that any person frequenting any street or public
place for the purpose of betting shall be liable for a first offence to a
penalty of not exceeding £10, for a second offence £20, and for a
third or subsequent offence, or where the person committing the offence
has any betting transaction with a person under sixteen years of age,
to a fine of £50 or to imprisonment for not exceeding six months. A
Bill to the same effect has also been read a first time in the House of
Commons.
Street
Betting.
49. Councillor Godfrey Evans attended as this Council's representative
a Conference convened by the Garden
City Association on the subject of Housing and
Rural Depopulation, held on the 16th March. The following resolutions
were passed at the Conference, viz. :—
"That the housing problem can be solved and the congestion in
crowded centres relieved by a concerted movement of manufacturers, cooperators,
and others to new areas, arrangements being made for securing
to the people the increased value which their presence will give to the
c
Housing.