St. Mark's Ward Bye-Election, Special Report. Sub-heading: Mr George Jennison's...

St. Mark's Ward Bye-Election, Special Report.

Sub-heading: Mr George Jennison's Speech on Municipal Topics.

2 printed columns.

p.1. Col.I. ... Thursday, 23rd inst ... meeting ... support Mr George Jennison & c candidature ... St. Mark's Schoolroom, West Gorton.

Chairman : Councillor Beastow ... candidate supported by Coumcillor Charles Jennison ......

... the electric installation in the Belle Vue Gardens ... amongst the best in South-East Lancashire ... for 40 or 50 years gas been made there of good quality ... at cheap rate ... Jennison family ... made ... done excellent servide for the district. Mr. Charles Jennison ... overseer of the poor for a quarter of a century & another uncle of their candidate for ... 23 years ... a member of the Board of Guardians, ... attending 2 or 3 times a week ...

p.2 Col.1 (City of Manchester) tramways, with 150 miles of the finest track in this country and 600 cars ... finest of their kind in the country ... a capital of £2,000,000. SHIP CANAL BENEFITS

... Ship Canal, with an invested capital of £5,000,000 Canal ... not constructed by the municipality, except Corporation had helped out private enterprise ... Ship Canal had done more for Manchester than any of the other public works .... changed Manchester from straggling city of 1892 to growing city of 1902 .....

ELECTRICITY AND TRAMWAYS

... Electricity Committee with its millions of capital ... electrical works ... chiefly subsidiary to the tramways undertaking ... Glasgow & London much cheaper rates ... abroad ran them 8 miles for a penny ... Leipsic 12 miles for a 1d ... Cheetham Hill excellent car accommodation ... hoped to have them in St. Mark's in May ... hoped eventually would follow European plan of having open, but covered, smoking cars ... Berlin speed 14 miles per hour, including stoppages ... sometimes nearly 20 miles an hour .....

Col.2 WORKMEN'S DWELLINGS

... Acquisition of Small Dwellings Act ... adopted by ... Gorton Urban District Council at his instigation ... allowed municipalities to supply 4/5ths of the purchase money to working men's tenants ..... Act adopted in Manchester also ... EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.

p.3 " 1 CHEAPER GAS FOR THE WORKING MEN

.... possible to get along with a paraffin lamp ... gas profits ... responsible for ... over 2½ millions in the improvement of Manchester ....

LABOUR QUESTIONS

Col 2 PERSONAL MATTERS

A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE ... he (G.J.) had ... experience on the Gorton District Council ... serve ... 2,507 municipal voters & 16,000 people ... population of ward .....

Page 4 : Col.1. Parks Committee ... to spend £2,500 on music for the people for the coming season ... like to see example of Liverpool followed in allowing the Police Band to play during the dinner hour several days a week in the crowded part of the city (Councillor W. Kay) .... housing scheme ... Corporation had in hand at Blackley, ... each of the 4 different plans of dwellings ... meet ... approval of rate-payers ... In 3 out of 4 .... designs ... baths, & hot & cold water throughout ... only class of house not so fitted ... that sanctioned by the Local Government Board ... to save a further Inquiry .... Corporation .... compelled to build a number of houses approved by the authority in London ....

Col 2 THE THIRLMERE WATER SCHEME

... Mr. Jennison ... for the present one additional pipe only from Thirlmere would suffice ... opposed to ... money being spent on two pipes at the present time.

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