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Sixteenth Report of the Council.
(Year ended 31 st March, 1930.)
Mayor.
At the Annual Meeting of the Council held on the 9th
November, 1929, Councillor A. L. Bateman was elected
Mayor of the Borough for the ensuing year.
Ex-Mayor.
It was thereupon resolved unanimously: —
That the best thanks of the Council be accorded to the
retiring Mayor (Councillor Arnold George Harvey) for his
valuable, painstaking and untiring services to the Borough
during the past year, and also to the ex-Mayoress for the
gracious and willing assistance rendered by her during that
period.
Valedictory Address of Councillor A. G. Harvey, J.P. (Mayor of
Camberwell, 1928-29).
Delivered at the Meeting of the Council on October 16th, 1929.
Aldermen and Councillors,—As this is the last ordinary meeting of the
Council at which I shall preside, I now purpose giving you a resume of my year
of office.
I commenced my year with a desire to offer encouragement to the business
side and the junior life of the Borough.
To enumerate the many civic functions I have attended in connection with
the office would be a burden on the time of the Council, but there are some special
features which have interested me particularly, and which will, I feel sure, also be
interesting to my colleagues.
During the year it has been my duty and privilege to represent the citizens of
Camberwell at important functions which have received the patronage of Royalty.
In November I attended, at the invitation of the Lord Mayor of London, the
opening by Her Majesty the Queen of an important extension of Spitalfields Market.
It will be remembered that this ceremony would have been performed by His
Majesty the King had it not been for his severe illness, which commenced a few
days prior. Although this was the first time Her Majesty had undertaken public
duties consequent upon the King's illness, the whole Empire is indebted to her and
the members of the Royal Family for the many sacrifices they have made in discharging
the numerous public duties which have devolved upon them.
In February I attended the opening of the Wigram Ward for Children at
King's College Hospital by H.R.H. Princess Marie Louise.
Another instance of the Royal Family's interest in the Borough was the
opening of the new Salvation Army Memorial Training College at Denmark Hill.