HC Deb 09 April 1907 vol 172 cc75-6

Address for "Return showing, so far as the particulars can be obtained, for the following towns of the German Empire, viz.: Berlin, Bremen, Frankfort-on-Main, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Elberfeld, Strassburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Nuremburg, Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, Breslau, Danzig, Konigsberg, Mannheim, Madgeburg, Stettin, Hanover, Hamburg, Essen, Brunswick, Barmen, and Dortmund, (1) the salaries of the burgomasters and professional members of the administrative boards; and (2) the nature and extent and, for each of the last four years for which figures are available, the financial results of reproductive municipal undertakings, including, for each undertaking separately, a short description thereof, date, and terms of original acquisition, or establishment, or subsequent extension, how managed, capital employed, and how obtained, value of the undertaking, capital paid off and outstanding, loan charges, provision for depreciation, gross income and expenditure, net profit or loss, how profit is allocated or loss met, amount of relief or burden to taxation, number and salaries of the chief paid officials, number of workpeople, rate of wages paid in chief classes of labour, and prices charged for products or services supplied or rendered."—(Mr. Chiozza Money.)