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Alfred Deed, together with the Clerk to the Board, to
represent them. Up to the end of the year now under
review four meetings of the Conference had been held, at
each of which Sir Arthur Arnold, the Chairman of the
Council, had presided. The subjects discussed were
matters of considerable detail and great importance, and it
is hoped that after the amount of time devoted to the
subject some good will result from the deliberations of the
Conference.
No steps have been taken upon the Report of the
Royal Commission upon the question of London
Government.
Equalisation of Rates.
Under the London Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894, it
was provided that a census should be taken in the year
1896. The date for this was fixed by the RegistrarGeneral
for the night of Sunday, 29th March. Some
little time must elapse before the result will be made
known; it is, however, anticipated that so far as the
St. Giles District is concerned a decrease in the population
will be shown to have taken place : if this is so, the result
will be that the contribution from this District, which is
already heavy, will be increased.
Metropolis Water Act, 1871—Water Waste
Preventing Cisterns.
In the year 1892, the Board passed a Resolution in
favour of an increase in the capacity of water waste
preventing cisterns, and applied to the Local Government