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The other Bills referred to were also dropped by the
promoters before proceeding to Committee.
REPRESENTATION AT METROPOLITAN BOARD.
At a Meeting of the joint Boards of Plumstead and
Lewisham, held on the 26th of March, 1884, Mr. Edwin
Hughes, a Member of the Plumstead Board, was elected the
Representative of the joint Boards at the Metropolitan Board
of Works, in the place of Mr. J. R. Lloyd, deceased—there
were 37 Members of the Plumstead Board and 26 Members
of the Lewisham Board present at the Meeting. Mr. Edwin
Hughes was nominated on behalf of the Plumstead Board,
and Mr. Theo. W. Williams was nominated on behalf of this
Board. Upon a show of hands there appeared for Mr. Hughes
37 and for Mr. Williams 26, and Mr. Hughes was therefore
elected as above stated.
As far back as the year 1883, the Board requested the
Works and General Purposes Committee to prepare a Memorial
to be laid before the Metropolitan Board of Works, setting
forth the urgent reasons that existed in favour of this Board
having a separate representative at the Metropolitan Board,
and requesting that Board to adopt the necessary measures to
carry out this Board's wish into effect.
To the present time this Board has been joined with the
Plumstead Board of Works in electing a Member to the
Metropolitan Board, and fur the past fourteen years a Member
of the Plumstead Board of Works has been elected to fill this
office, and inasmuch as the Members of the Plumstead Board
number 37, and the Members of this Board only 27, it is
apparent that it is always in the power of the Plumstead
Board to elect one of their own body as the Representative,
and that, therefore, for all practical purposes, the Lewisham
Board is unrepresented at the Metropolitan Board.
This state of affairs has long been considered by this
Board as unsatisfactory and unjust, as the interests of the
Lewisham Board are larger than those of the Plumstead
Board, the population of the Lewisham District, according to
the Census of 1881, amounting to about 72,000, or 8,000 in