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In the month of November, a deputation of ratepayers
requested the Vestry to allow a memorial to the School
Board, protesting against the enormous expenditure of the
Board, to lie in the Vestry Hall for signature, and this the
Vestry readily assented to, without expressing any opinion
on the memorial itself.
More recently, a statement has been largely circulated
among the ratepayers, with a view to inform them on the
growing cost of the School Board, in the hope that a
strenuous effort will be made at the approaching election of
the Board to secure the return of qualified candidates. The
Vestry are convinced, from a careful consideration of the
whole facts of the case, so far as they have been able to
gather them from official documents, that the London
School Board Rate might be reduced by nearly 3d. in the
pound by careful administration. What the rate will
amount to in the near future depends upon the choice of
the Electors in November next.
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTORAL AREAS.
In addition to petitioning in favour of the School Board
Elections Bill, which proposes to assimilate the School
Board electoral area with the Parliamentary constituencies,
the Vestry appointed two of their members, on the invitation
of the St. Pancras Vestry, to join a proposed deputation
to the Education Department in support of the Bill.
The Department, however, declined to receive the deputation
on the ground that the Bill is not one for which it is
responsible.