| Description | Papers concerning the Local Government Boundary Commission's review of boundaries.
Includes: precis of the Report of the Local Government Boundary Commission for the Year 1947 by James Wallace, Town Clerk, Borough of Widnes (April 1948); minutes of the Parliamentary Committee of Lancashire County Council (April 1948); notes of a meeting of local group Authorities to discuss Boundary Commission proposals (September 1947); joint statement by the Widnes Borough, Huyton, Prescot and Rainford Urban District and Whiston Rural District Councils in response to the Boundary Commission's proposals of a one or two-tier system of local government, as well as notes of the proceedings of the conference at which the above-listed councils presented the statement and the Boundary Commission attended (October 1947); report by the Treasurer to Huyton-with-Roby Urban District Council on the housing of the 'overspill' population from Liverpool (October 1947); joint statement by the Widnes Borough, Huyton, Prescot and Rainford Urban District and Whiston Rural District Councils in response to points made by Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, Chair of the Boundary Commission, at the conference in October 1947 (c. October 1947). |