24 MARCH 1923, Page 27

A Royal Commission which has been considering " London Government

" has issued its report, or _rather it has issued threereports. The Majority report definitely turns down the London County Council scheme for extending that hodyls administration over the whole of Greater -London. sOn the other hand, it makes one important constructive proposal—the -scheme for an -equalization fund 'to mitigate the injustices of the rating system by -which the 'heaviest burden falls on -those Boroughs least easily able to bear it.