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The water which the Lea Conservancy Board controls runs from Hertford
to Limehouse. They also took over the Stort navigation in 1912. The
Middlesex Council's representative is County Alderman Nield, K.C., M.P., who
reports twice yearly to his authority. The last report of our representative,
Mr. Cornish, on the work of this Board appears to be one for nine months
ended December 31st, 1912. Mr. Nield states (March 1915) that the Stort
navigation has been placed in an efficient condition for half its length and that
analytical reports show that the water above the intakes of the Metropolitan
Water Board is in a high state of purity.
COSTERS.
In February, Boots' Drug Company on the Green complained of unfair
competition of a coster's stall opposite their shop, and offered to rent the stall
themselves.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
The Royal Commission on this matter, so important to growing urban
districts like Edmonton, was appointed by Queen Victoria on the 7th May,
1898; it issued 9 reports in the course of an existence of 17 years, and a final
one in February, 1915.