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enlarged, it followed that the St. Giles District was one of
those central areas which would have to be linked with
some other district in order that it might (unless special
reasons were shown) form part of a district the rateable
value of which should exceed £500,000, or have a population
of 100,000. The rateable value of the St. Giles
District being only £441,815, and the population but
38,237, it immediately became apparent to the Board that
an amalgamation of some other district with that of St.
Giles was necessary in order to form an area convenient
for administrative purposes. Communications were thereupon
opened with the Board of Works for the Holborn
District, who, after an opportunity had been afforded for
a Conference being held of both Boards, unanimously
declared themselves in favour of an amalgamation of the
Districts of St. Giles and Holborn for the purpose of
forming one Borough under the Act.
A statement in support of these views was prepared
and submitted to the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, the First
Lord of the Treasury, and circulated among the metropolitan
Members of Parliament, and, thanks to the
invaluable services rendered by the Right Hon. Sir
Charles Hall, K.C.M.G., Q.C., M.P., who was ably assisted
by Sir Edward Clarke, Q.C., M.P., John Lowles, Esq., M.P.,
Walter Hazell, Esq., M.P., and other Members of Parliament
who were interested in the proposed Borough, the
First Lord of the Treasury, when the committee stage of
the Bill was reached, intimated that the Government had
determined that one of the areas to be included in the
first schedule to the Bill should be the Parliamentary
Borough of Holborn.