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Committee would therefore suggest that every facility should1
be afforded for the formation and meeting of a Committee
of Ratepayers, and that the Vestry Hall should accordingly
be placed at the disposal of such Committee.
As regards the constitution of the Committee, in the absence
of any better organization, Members of the various Public
Boards in the Parish would seem to afford an excellent
nucleus, fairly representing various views, and your Committee
would therefore suggest that all members of such
Boards willing to serve should form themselves into a
Committee, with power to add to their number from time
to time any parishioners or others interested in the cause
of education or the. work of the London School Board, in
order to select suitable Candidates and work for their
election. It is of course to be understood that such a
Committee would be an independent organization, entirely
separate from the Vestry as a corporate body.
All which your Committee submit.
As a matter of information, it may be added that a representative
Committee "was formed as suggested in the foregoing;
Report, and agreed to support the five candidates who had
been previously selected by a Ruri-decanal Committee of
Clergy and representative laymen. The Election was held
on the 26th November, and three (Rev. A. G. Bowman, Mr.
Winnett, and Major-Gen. Sim) of the selected candidates
were returned, the other two (Lord Colchester, and Mr. W.
G. F. Cavendish Bentinck) being unsuccessful.
Compared with former occasions, the last Election appears
to have excited rather more interest than of late years. It is
still, however, very unsatisfactory to find that only 13,645
voters out of a total of 35,000 (or not much more than onethird)
took the trouble to record their votes.
The following
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