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Board for London and the benefits it confers upon the
community, is, nevertheless, of opinion that the expenditure
of the Board has been unduly excessive, and has become
a very heavy and oppressive burden upon the ratepayers,
and that action is urgently called for with a view to the
curtailment of such expenditure.
(b) "That, in the opinion of this Conference, it is
desirable that a limit should be fixed by Statute to the
School Board Rate.
(c) "That, in the opinion of this Conference, the time
has arrived when an Inquiry should be instituted, either
by a Royal Commission or a Select Committee of one of
the Houses of the Legislature, into the expenditure of
the School Board for London, and also into the present
incidence of the rate levied to meet the expenses incurred
in the administration of the Elementary Education Act
in the Metropolis.
2. (a) "That, in the opinion of this Conference, the
present School Board Divisions are inconvenient, and the
Parliamentary Boroughs as set out in the Redistribution
of Seats Act, 1885, should be substituted therefor.
(b) "That the Register to be employed for School
Board purposes should be the Register of Parochial
Electors as defined by the Local Government Act, 1894.
3. "That a copy of the resolutions passed by this
Conference be communicated to the Prime Minister, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President and VicePresident
of the Committee of Council on Education, the
School Board for London, and the Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis, and that the Prime Minister be
asked to receive a Deputation from this Conference to
support the representations contained in the said resolutions."
In conformity with the last mentioned resolution and
the request of the Vestry, the Board appointed a representative
to join the proposed deputation—namely, Mr. F. Baxter—but
it did not take place; the Prime Minister preferring that the
communications of the Conference should be made in writing.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
In accordance with notice given by them, the County
of London and Lrush Provincial Electric Lighting Company,