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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
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