| Description | Correspondence, papers and circulars regarding local government reform.
The bundle includes: 'Local Government Reform as it Affects the Rural Parish' booklets produced by the National Council of Social Service and the Lancashire Parish Councils Association; Lancashire Parish Councils' Conference Report, 1943; Rural District Councils Association circulars relating to local government reform; correspondence and memoranda from the Community Council of Lancashire regarding reforms; correspondence and circulars from the Rural District Councils Association regarding the reforms; various government and political circulars, including 'The Labour Party: Local Government in the Post-War World' and 'Britain After the War: Local Government and its Future' (published by the Liberal National Party, 1944); report, provided by Watson Garbutt, Whiston R.D.C. Engineer and Surveyor, providing information for the Boundary Commission about the district's town planning, housing, highways, playing fields and open spaces, financial strength, wishes of the inhabitants; information for the Boundary Commission about the district - size, population, agriculture, industry, housing, boundaries, sewerage, utilities, transport, town planning, administration, staff in the Engineer and Surveyor's department; typescript notes for meeting of the Rural District Councils Association Lancashire Branch (November 1942); extracts from report of Special Committee of the County Councils Association regarding local government reform; pages from the Daily Dispatch newspaper, 17 February, 1944, with articles about local government reform. |