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authorise local authorities to acquire wharves by compulsion,
failing agreement, and the Yestry suggested that this
should be extended to property required for any public
purpose, such as offices, depots, mortuaries, &c., and that the
requirement of a double assent, both of the Metropolitan
Board of Works and the Home Secretary, before the power
could be exercised, should be restricted; and Railway and
Canal Traffic Bill, which the Vestry suggested should be
amended by conferring upon Metropolitan Vestries and
District Boards of Works the right to make representations
to the Railway Commissioners.
On the invitation of the Vestry of Kensington, delegates
were appointed to attend a conference of representatives of
Vestries and District Boards of Works, to consider the
Metropolitan Board of Works (Local Management, &c.)
Bill.
The action taken by the Vestry with regard to the United
Telephone Company's Bill is mentioned on page 99.
and the views of the Vestry with regard to the School Board
for London Elections Bill are given on page 93.
TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION.
With reference to the Technical Instruction Bill which was
introduced by the Government into the House of Commons
in the course of last session, and subsequently abandoned
owing to the presure of other business, the Vestry suggested
that endowments available for apprenticeship purposes
might. in view of the altered conditions now existing, be
advantageously applied to a large extent in promoting
technical • instruction. In acknowledging the receipt of a
communication to this effect, the Right Hon. W. H.
Smith, the Borough Member, replied that the Charity