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confer powers upon them to supply Electrical energy from
generating stations outside the District. The Bill was
opposed by certain other Local Authorities in whose districts
cables were proposed to be laid. At the time of
preparing this Report the Bill was under consideration by
a Select Committee.
School Board Elections (London) Bill.
This Bill was promoted by the School Board for
London for the purpose of assimilating the electoral
divisions of the Board with those of the London County
Council and for Parliamentary purposes, and thereby to
abolish the cumulative vote. The Board being of opinion
that the time had arrived when the electoral divisions of
the School Board should be assimilated with those for
Parliamentary and other purposes, presented a petition to
the House of Commons in favour of the Bill.
Removal of House Refuse (Bi-weekly Collection from
all Houses in the District).
During the very hot weather in the summer of 1899
the question of the removal of house refuse came
prominently before the public, and the Board resolved, at
all events, as an experiment, that during the summer the
same should be removed twice a week. After some
months' trial it was decided that the change should be
permanent, but the result has not been so successful as
the Board hoped, partly owing to the difficulty of dealing
with the Contractors' employees, and partly owing to
the disinclination that there is on the part of certain
householders (or, perhaps, more strictly speaking, their