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Conference which took place on the 10th March, the following
resolutions were passed:—
"1. That this Conference is of opinion that legislation
should be at once undertaken providing for the separate
valuation and assessment of land and improvements.
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"2. That no scheme for the taxation of land values
will be acceptable which does not provide for the collection
of the tax from the occupier, with a statutory right of
deduction as is the case in Income Tax, Schedule A.
"3. That no scheme for the taxation of land values
will be acceptable which does not provide for the assessment
of land values for local as well as Imperial purposes."
FIRE-ESCAPE.
The London County Council has intimated that as a
horsed fire-escape of an improved pattern is now kept at the
chief station of the Fire Brigade in Southwark Bridge Road,
the fire-escape stations in Sumner Street and Marshalsea
Road will be discontinued.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
A circular-letter was received from the Board of Works for
the St. Giles's District stating that the Board had had under
consideration the Sale of Food and Drugs Amendment Bill,
introduced into the House of Commons by the President and
Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board,
and forwarding copy of a resolution passed by that Board as
follows:—
"That a communication be addressed to the Local
Government Board urging that the Bill should be amended
and brought into line with the recommendations of the
Select Committee of the House of Commons."
The Board referred the letter to its Sanitary Committee,
who handed the same to the Analyst, Mr. R. Bodmer, F.I.C.,
for his opinion, who reported as follows:—
"I have considered the circular-letter from the St.
Giles's Board of Works re the Sale of Food and Drugs
Bill and the report to that Board by two of their officers. I
need not recapitulate the facts referred to in that report as
to the long and exhaustive inquiry by a Select Committee
of the House of Commons on the defects in the present