The London County Council on Tuesday adopted a draft scheme
for the future administration of Greater London, which Mr. R. C. Norman will advocate on behalf of the Council. before the Royal Commission on London Government. The scheme provides for a central authority, with about as many members as the London County Council, to supervise the whole area covered by the Water Board and the Metropolitan Police. It would presumably absorb both the London and Middlesex County Councils and would stand in much the same relation to the boroughs surrounding London as the County Council stands to the Borough Councils. The new central authority would, however, exercise some control over the boroughs, as a set-off to the equalization of rates through the whole area. This proposal will, of course, be very unwelcome to the outer boroughs, which are proud of their careful and thrifty adrninis. tration and have no desire to be made responsible for the feckless spendthrifts of Poplar.
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