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on the report of such person the Board may make alterations
in the regulations as they think fit. No alteration or repeal
of any existing regulations, or any regulation newly made by
the company, has any force or effect unless or until the same
shall have been confirmed by the Local Government Board.
In the report above referred to, I stated that " the most likely
course to attain the object the St. Giles's District Board
had in view, would be to approach the Metropolitan Authority,
whose intervention would probably be successful ; " and this
opinion, it would appear, is likely to prove correct.
GAS.
The subjoined Tables, based on the quarterly reports of
the Chief Gas Examiner, summarise the principal results
(averages) of the daily testings, at the Ladbroke Grove
Station, of the "common gas" manufactured by the Gas
Light and Coke Company at their Kensal Green Works.

It appears from these results, that the average illuminating
power of the gas, at the station, was higher than
the Parliamentary standard, and that, excepting on two
occasions, the minimum was equal to or above the requirement.