MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
IN ENGLAND AND WALES IMPORTANT CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATION (British Official Wireless.) /Rec. November 1, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, October 31. The ratepayers in 360 provincial boroughs in England and Wales will tomorrow elect one-third of the members of the municipal councils. Most of the seats falling vacant are being contested by Labour candidates. The municipal authorities have been assigned extensive powers, including the protection of the health of the community, the administration of the educational system, the provision of social amenities of various kinds, and the care of child life and the poor and aged, in addition to the administration of municipal undertakings such as gas, water, tramways. electricity, housing, markets, and baths. Particular importance is attached to this year’s elections in view of the forthcoming alterations of the administration whereby in a few months work hitherto done by separately elected boards of guardians will be transferred to the larger municipal and county councils.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 11
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