Another London County Council proposal which is arousing much opposition, especially from the "Daily Mull," is that for the erection of a great County Hall on the south bank of the Thames, uecarly opposite to the Houses of Parliament. The site will cost about £600,000, and the whole scheme will involve an expenditure of £1,700,000. It certainly seems an immense sun; but after all, iti membered that the County Council charge of the local government of the first city of the world, with a population equal to that of some flourishing kingdoms, it may well be contended that the sum is not excessive. Their hundreds of employees are at present: in various buildings dotted about London, a system involving some inevitable waste xnd inefficiency. A site for" County Hall big enough for all ite par; could not have. been obtained for anything like this sum in any part of Central London north of the Thames; and it would hardly be creditable if the richest city la the world could not afford for ite central municipality a building fit to vie with that of continental capital. There have been many schemes for a County Hall. One suggestion was to build it on a bridge across the Thames, to vie with Old London Bridge; another was to place it where Holywell St. used to stand—perhaps the most expensive site outside the City; and the scheme adopted is certainly about the most economical of them all.
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