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Wandworth Charities
20. Theperiod for which Alderman Lorden and Councillor
Buchanan (Springfield Ward), Mr. J. l^uscombe
(Fairfield Ward), and Alderman Rucker (Southfield
Ward) were appointed Representative Trustees of the Wandsworth
Consolidated Charities, having expired, the Council on the
24th April, 1907, re-appointed Alderman Lorden and Councillor
Buchanan for the Spring-field Ward, and Alderman Rucker for
Southfield Ward, and appointed Councillor Taylor for the Fairfield
Ward to fill the vacancies.
Weir Hospital Trust
21. In October last the Council considered the subject of an
agreement which a majority of the Trustees and
Committee of Management of the Weir Trust had
entered into with the Committee of the Bolingbroke Hospital for
expending a large part of the Trust Funds towards the completion
and maintenance of that hospital, and an application which
had been made to the Charity Commission to publish a scheme in
accordance with the agreement, and passed the following resolutions
thereon, viz. :—
(a) That this Council, which is entrusted with the appointment of
three members of the Committee for the administration of the Weir Trust,
regrets the payment of the sum of ,£5,000 out of the funds of the Trust to
the Bolingbroke Hospital, and objects to the proposal to divert the bulk of
the funds to the completion of the building and to assist in the maintenance
of that Institution. The clear intention of Mr. Weir's Will is the
establishment of a separate Institution in and for the benefit mainly of
Streatham, and this Council is of opinion that such an Institution should
be established as soon as possible, and that the whole of the available funds
should be devoted to that purpose.
(b) That the Trustees and the Charity Commissioners be respectfully
requested not to prepare or concur in any scheme for the administration
of the Trust which includes the expenditure of any part of the fund in
providing or maintaining a building outside the Parish of Streatham in
which parish Mr. Weir lived and was specially interested.
22. Councillor Anderson and the Town Clerk attended a
Public Inquiry held by the Charity Commission at the Balham
Assembly Rooms on the 5th and 8th November, and supported the
views of the Council.
23. The period for which Alderman Penfold, Mr. W. Dickinson
and Mr. J. W. Rose were appointed the Council's Representatives
on the Committee of Management of the Trust having
expired, the Council, on the 9th October, appointed Alderman