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64. This Bill provides for the establishment of a Port Authoport
of rity, to consist of a Chairman and Vice-Chairman,
London. fourteen members elected by payers of dues, owners
of river craft, and wharfingers, and ten members appointed as
follows :—five by the London County Council, two by the Board
of Trade, and one by the Admiralty, the Corporation of London,
and Trinity House respectively; that the Port Authority shall have
charge of the River Thames from Teddington to Havengore
Creek, fifty-one miles below London Bridge; that the Port Authority
shall take over the property, powers and obligations of the
London and India Docks Company, the Millwall Dock Company,
the Thames Conservancy below Teddington, and the Watermen's
Company so far as relates to the River, and that the Board of
Trade should have power to make orders, authorising the Port
Authority to construct new works, purchase lands compulsorily,
and to co-operate with others with a view to providing further
accommodation and facilities in the Port. Provision is made for
the re-constitution of the Conservators who will control the River
above Teddington by the appointment of seventeen members, one
appointed by each of the following, viz.:—the Board of Trade, the
Port Authority, the Metropolitan Water Board, the London
County Council, the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire County
Councils, the Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey,
and Middlesex County Councils, the Borough Councils of Abingdon
and Wallingford, the Borough Councils of Reading, Kingston-upon-Thames,
Windsor, Henlev-upon-Thames, and Maidenhead.
65. This Council was of opinion that in view of the large sum
contributed to the Conservancy Funds by the Metropolitan Water
Board and the importance of seeing that the waters of the upper
river are preserved from pollution, that the Board of Trade, the
Port Authority, the Metropolitan Water Board, and the London
County Council should each have two representatives instead of
one on the re-constituted Body of Conservators.
66. 1 he Council also appointed Alderman Bulcraig and
Councillor Taylor its representatives to attend a Conference convened
by the Hammersmith Borough Council at which representatives
of the Riparian Authorities of Fulham, Hammersmith,
Chiswick, Brentford, Heston and Isleworth, Barnes, and Wandsworth
were present, and the following resolutions passed, viz. : —