Present: Representing Sir W H Marling Bart: Sharpness Docks, etc, Co Mr T Nelson Foster: Sharpness Docks, etc, Co Mr Henry Waddy: Sharpness Docks, etc, Co Mr Hubert Waddy: Sharpness Docks, etc, Co Mr G W Keeling: Sharpness Docks, etc, Co Mr F A Jones: Sharpness Docks, etc, Co Mr T Southall: Severn Navigation Commission Mr H Hamilton Mills: Stroudwater Navigation Mr C H Hooper, Stroudwater Navigation Mr W J Snape, Stroudwater Navigation Mr W J Ainsworth, Wilts & Berks Canal.
Re T&S Canal, Mr Ainsworth will give you traffic to and from the Wilts & Berks Canal, the Thames Conservancy as to River Thames, Mr Waddy from the Junction to the T&S Canal and a return of the down traffic to the G&B Canal.
The toll on this Canal will be 8d per ton, so 1s 1d from the Junction to Latton, or with Wilts & Berks toll 2s 7d from Junction to Abingdon.
Mr Charles Henry Hooper, Stroudwater Navigation, Sir W H Marling, Mr Hubert Waddy, Sharpness New Docks & Gloucester & Birmingham Navigation Co, Mr Thomas Southall, Severn Commissioners, Mr William John Ainsworth, Wilts & Berks Canal Co, Mr Hugh William Russell, County Council of Berkshire, Mr Wilfred Joseph Cripps, County Council of Glos, Mr Henry Mousell, Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of City of Gloucester.
Opposition to closure of Wilts & Berks Canal Co. Stafford & Worcester Canal Co. preferred to lend £200 of £2000 rather than undertake any guarantee.
Page 1 of letter objecting to the proposed closure of Wilts & Berks Canal as it would affect the Thames & Severn Trust's 1895 undertaking to trade between Gloucester and Swindon
Page 2 of lettter relating to the proposed closure of the Wilts & Berks Canal
Letter from Clerk to Board of Trade about opposition to application of Wilts & Berks Navigation to abandon canal read.
Chairman drew attention to resolution of Committee 18 May 1897 opposing application of Wilts & Berks Canal Company to relinquish their undertaking.
Stroudwater Navigation Co withdraw opposition to closure of main section of Wilts & Berks Canal, providing North Wilts Branch maintained in good repair
Letter to Board of Trade withdrawing opposition to application by Wilts & Berks to abandon their undertaking.
Letter from Swindon Corporation to cut off supply of water from reservoir supplying Wilts & Berks Canal.
Swindon Corporation Bill: Resolution passed by Committee deprecating closure of Wilts & Berks Canal.
Wilts & Berks Canal to be stopped for 4 or 5 weeks for repairs.
