BRITISH RATEPAYERS
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, October 31. Ratepayers in 360 provincial boroughs in England and Wales will to-morrow 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 com-' muuity, the of the educational system, the provision of social amenities of various kinds, and the care of child life and the poor and the aged, in addition to the dministration of municipal 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 dministration, by which in a few months the work hitherto done by separately elected boards of guardians _ will bo transferred to larger municipal and county councils.
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Evening Star, Issue 20322, 2 November 1929, Page 15
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