5 8o ENGLISH LOCAL AFFAIRS 



by the addition of the former urban district of Wellington Quay and part of the rural district 

 ot Tynemouth. 



Channel Islands. The Guernsey States (the legislative body) approved a resolution for 

 the adoption of English weights and measures in 1910 to the exclusion of the old local stand- 

 ards, but a petition for the adoption of British coinage as the only legal currency was rejected 

 in 1911. Major E. O. F. Hamilton, C.B., succeeded^ the late Major-General R. Auld, C.B., 

 in April 1911 as lieutenant-governor and commander of the troops in Guernsey and Alderney. 



Isle of Man. In April 1911 the Home Secretary appointed a committee to report upon 

 a petition from the House of Keys for reforms in the Manx ; Government. It was proposed 

 to limit the lieutenant-governorship to a term of years (seven or eight), to extend the powers 

 of the Tynwald, and to constitute the legislative council of four members elected by the 

 Keys, together with the Attorney-General, the Bishop and two judges. The Tynwald, 

 with the approval of the Board of Trade, passed in April 1912 a resolution imposing a duty on 

 passengers entering or leaving the ports of Douglas, Ramsey, Peel, Laxey and Port St. 

 Mary, and devoting the proceeds to .ae improvements of the ports. 



Water Supply. In London the Metropolitan Water Board (New Works) Act, 191 r, 

 authorised the Board to construct new storage reservoirs at Staines, Laleham and 

 Shepperton, new service reservoirs on Horsendon Hill, Greenford, and on Barn Hill, 

 Wembley, and to construct numerous conduits and aqueducts. The Island Barn reser- 

 voir, near West Molesley, constructed by the Board, was opened on November 4, 1911. 



The corporations of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield are jointly responsible 

 for the Derwent Valley Water scheme, of which the cost is estimated at 6,000,009, and 

 which began the impounding of water on January i, 1912. The first two reservoirs are 

 the Howden and the Derwent, the former having a capacity of 1,886 million gallons and 

 being 14 miles in length, and the latter a capacity of 2,000 millions, with a length of if 

 miles. The proportion of water allotted to Leicester is 35^72 per cent, providing for a 

 daily yield of 9,800,000 gallons, to Derby 25 per cent, to Nottingham 14.28 per cent, and 

 to Sheffield 26 per cent. Derbyshire water has also been laid under contribution for the 

 supply of Stockport, a new source at Kinder, Hayfield, being opened on July n, 1912. 



Improvements undertaken in the Liverpool water supply system include the construction 

 of a reservoir on Lake Vyrnwy aqueduct near Malpas, and a water-tower (1911) and high 

 level-tank at Woolton Hill. Similarly at Manchester, for which water is drawn from Thirl- 

 mere in the Lake District, it has been necessary to undertake extension of the works by 

 laying a third conduit from the lake to the city. Works are in progress for a water-supply 

 from the river Alwen in North Wales for Birkenhead. 



On October 4, 191 1, the new Lincoln water-supply was inaugurated, being obtained from 

 the red sandstone near the village of Elkeslcy, Nottinghamshire, 22 miles from the city, 

 at a cost of about 250,000. 



Housing and Town-planning. In London, improved communications and the 

 working-class dwellings provided in the outskirts (as at Norbury, Totterdown and White 

 Hart Lane) by the London County Council, have facilitated the efflux of population from 

 the centre to the border of the county. The tenements in dwellings belonging to the 

 London County Council on December 31, 1910, numbered 9,217; the total number of 

 rooms was 25,922^; the average rent per week per room was 2s.io|d. A scheme for 

 the establishment of a garden city on land belonging to King's College, Cambridge, at 

 Ruislip-Northwood, was authorised by the Local Government Board in March 1911, 

 and a plan was adopted after competition. It was proposed to devote two-thirds of the 

 estate of 1,300 acres to building and one-third to open spaces. The extension of the 

 Garden City movement in the neighbourhood of London is also illustrated by the pi in 

 adopted in April 1912 for a garden village covering about 1,000 acres at Knebworth; 

 while at Letchworth, the first garden city, 28 factories have been established. 



At Birmingham town planning schemes have been adopted for Quinton, Harborne, 

 Kdgbaston and East Birmingham. In 1911 the town council of Coventry adopted a scheme 

 for artisans' dwellings estimated to cost 30,000. Portsmouth, Winchester and Bournemouth 

 have adopted town-planning schemes, and at Portsmouth it was found feasible to clear a 

 large slum area and erect model dwellings, without adopting the Housing Act. A garden 

 village has been founded in the Far Cotton district of Northampton, at Hunsbury Hill on 

 the Bouverie estate. In Liverpool mention may be made of the laying of the foundation 

 of a housing scheme, the largest of six undertaken by the Liverpool City Council, by the 

 Rt. Hon. John Burns in November 1910. Housing is provided for 1372 persons. The 

 development of a garden city at Wavertree is in progress, and a number of streets have been 



