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most controversy is that of cisterns, these having been advised in the report of
Colonel Ducat and Dr. Barry, appointed by the Local Government Board in
1895, to hold an inquiry into the scarcity of water in the East London
District, and emphatically recommended in the report of the Royal Commission,
and the proposed regulations were framed to give effect to these
recommendations. In face, however, of the opposition which the proposals
have aroused from the various Local Authorities, owing, as the Companies
think, in great part to a misapprehension of the objects sought to be obtained,
the Companies propose to ask the Local Government Board not to further
proceed with the present Inquiry. I make that statement at the outset to
you and your colleagues, Sir."