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thoroughfares to be “Main Roads,” and partly on the course
adopted by the local authorities with regard to retaining the
roads under their own control.
It was to agree upon some common course of action and
the adoption of a general principle that the Conference at
Chelsea was held.
Resolutions were adopted at this Conference, advising
the various local authorities to apply to the County Council
to make orders declaring thoroughfares, being a means of
communication with other districts, or leading to railway
stations, or being omnibus routes, or largely used for metro
politan as distinct from local traffic, to be “Main Roads,”
and to claim to retain the management of such main roads
under local control. The course to be adopted by this
Vestry was still under consideration at Lady Day.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTORAL DISTRICTS.
Upon the invitation of the St. Pancras Vestry, this Vestry
appointed three of their members to attend a Conference in
support of the assimilation of the School Board Electoral
Districts to the Parliamentary areas.
The Vestry have on former occasions objected to the
Parliamentary area being adopted for School Board Electoral
Districts, mainly from an apprehension that School Board
Elections would then probably be conducted on political
lines, but as the Parliamentary area has since been adopted
as the Electoral District for the County Council, and it
would be an obvious advantage if the Electoral Districts of
all the Metropolitan Authorities were uniform, this objection
has been removed.