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Board of Trade to the Vestry, with a request they would express their
opinion on the proposal. The Vestry considered the amalgamation
would be prejudicial to the interests of gas consumers, and informed
the Board of Trade accordingly. The Board decided not to sanction
the amalgamation.
SCHOOL BOARD FOR LONDON.
The amount required by the precept, to be paid by quarterly
payments, is £12,250 11s. 10d., being an increase of £1829 16s. on
the precept for last year.
Messrs. Baugh, Jones, Edroff, Payne, Francis, and Abbott, were
appointed representatives to attend a Conference, at St. Pancras, on
the subject of the School Board Expenditure. At this Conference a
Committee was formed to arrange for a deputation to attend to present
a memorial to the Education Department. A memorial was ultimately
adopted by the Conference, and presented to the Vice-President of the
Committee of Council on Education.
A letter from the Vestry of Bermondsey, protesting against an
expenditure of £53,000 for alterations in the offices and premises of
the School Board, was referred to the Parliamentary Committee, who
reported they "had not the means of judging whether the proposed
expenditure is really necessary or not, and without having the whole
of the facts before them, with as full details and knowledge of the
Board's requirements as the School Board have, the Committee cannot
challenge the decision of a Board specially elected by the ratepayers
of the Metropolis to administer the School Board Acts." The report
was adopted by the Vestry.
A letter from the Metropolitan Association for Limiting the Expenditure
of the School Board for London, enclosing a copy of a proposed
memorial to the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, has
also been referred to the Parliamentary Committee.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.
The amount required by the Board's precept is £10,074 5s. 10d., being
an increase of £466 12s. 3d. on the precept of last year.