| Description | Correspondence, cuttings and reports relating to district boundaries and local government finance.
Includes: cutting from the Daily Post, December 1935, regarding the 'Merseyside Unity Question'; correspondence between Whiston Rural District Council and Huyton Urban District Council regarding boundaries and related reports; various newspaper cuttings, mounted on paper, regarding a merger between Prescot, Huyton and Whiston (c. 1935); correspondence with Lancashire County Council regarding proposed merger of Huyton-with-Roby and Prescot Urban Districts and between the two urban districts and Whiston R.D.C.; details of loans and appropriation of available capital sums sanctioned by the Ministry of Health since the Review of County Districts; handwritten notes regarding boundary changes and loans; copies of two reports of the Special Committee as to Royal Commission on Tyneside Local Government (1935-6); copy of a Petition of the trustees of the late Arthur Richard Pilkington against the St. Helens Corporation Bill, presented to the House of Commons, session 1932-33, that proposed to incorporate Windle and parts of Eccleston into St. Helens; minutes of the annual meeting and special conference of the Rural District Councils of England and Wales, London, May 1942. |