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Swimming Baths and Bathing Pools.
The only swimming pool in the district, viz, at "The Barn", Barnet By-Pass,
is not now in use.
Employment Agencies.
Prior to the war there were four employment agencies in the district.
These, however, are no longer in existence.
SHOPS ACT. 1934.
Routine inspection of shops has been in abeyance during and since the war,
but it is proposed to resume this work at an early date. General inspections,
however, are continually made.
STATUTORY NOTICES.
As previously stated, in the large majority of cases preliminary or
intimation notice is sufficient to secure the remedying of any defect to
property or breach of the Acts, Regulations and Bye-laws in force within the
district, and it was found necessary to ask your authority to serve Statutory
Notice in only 47 cases. Of this number, 38 had been complied H.th at the end
of the year, leaving 9 outstanding.
PETROLEUM (REGULATION) ACTS. 1928 AND 1936.
There are thirty-five persons licensed to store petroleum upon the Register;
one more than last year. The Licences are for varying quantities from 1.8
gallons to 6,000 gallons. The total quantity of petroleum spirit which may be
kept in the various stores is 28,628 gallons. Forty-one inspections were made,
but there was no serious breach of the Regulations to report.
One Licence was issued for the storage of 100 lbs. of Carbide of Calcium.
The scale of fees for Licences to Store Petroleum ranges from 5/- for a
quantity not exceeding 100 gallons to £1 for 1,000 to 5,000 gallons.
With a view to the standardisation of electrical equipment used in connection
with petrol service pumps, the Secretary of State, Home Office, has issued a Model
Code of requirements. In the past, the production of satisfactory electrically
operated pumps has been rendered difficult by the varying requirements of local
authorities. Now the new Code will, in due course, be incorporated in the