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RIVER LEE.
An exhaustive report was made upon the pollution of the River Lee,
a matter which had been brought to the notice of the Council on various
occasions. This pollution was traced to the Tottenham and District
Light, Heat and Power Company's Works at the Edmonton Boundary.
The County Council, within whose jurisdiction comes the matter of pollution
of streams, instituted proceedings against this Company in respect
of the Boundary Ditch, but on the understanding that a new filter was
to be installed to obviate further pullution, the summons was adjourned.
Unfortunately much more serious pollution has since been discovered and
reported upon to the Council. This pollution affects the ditch which
surrounds on three sides Asplins Farm and enters Pymmes Brook, a
tributary of the Lee, by a culvert in the vicinity of the Emery Works.
SHOPS ACTS, 1912 to 1921.
The Shops were kept under observation by the Shops Acts Inspector,
who is attached to the Health Department. A certain number
of persons were represented to the Council as having contravened the
terms of the Act, and in 81 instances the Council considered that a
warning notice to the offender would be sufficient to meet the case. In
7 cases prosecution was resorted to. The particulars of these
will be found under the heading "Legal Proceedings."
The Council had under consideration an application from the Confectioners
to be allowed to remain open on Sunday evenings after 8
o'clock. Having regard to the case London County Council versus
Gainsborough, the Council, after having given careful and sympathetic
consideration to the application, communicated with the Home Secretary,
and a letter in the following terms was received by the Council:—
"An Order made under the Act of 1912 for the evening closing of
confectioners' shops on Sundays for any later hour than that fixed by
the General Early Closing Order under the Act of 1920 (viz:-—8 p.m.)
would be inoperative . . . He would not, therefore, be prepared to
confirm an Order to provide for the closing of confectioners'
shops on Sundays at an hour later than 8 p.m."
The closing hours in force in Tottenham are as follows:—-