Edited sentence: Courteney was described as "a philosophical and ccassionally unpractical chairman", Holt and Smith were dismissed as "two gentlemen whose experiences were avowedly to provincial administration" while Farrer was an "amiable nobleman and advowed advocate of the LCC".On receipt of the report it was angrily rejected by the City of London.The commission was said to have simply adopted the county council's scheme.The members of the commission were personally attacked.They attacked what they described as proposals for a "puppet lord mayor" and the "spoilation of the City"