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Walworth Road, and therefore the conditions of thp order hare not
yet been complied with ; and the Vestry in promoting a scheme for a
competitive supply would have reasonable grounds therefore in
approaching the Board of Trade
Upon the County of London Electric Supply Company promoting a
provisional order during the session of 1894, the Vestry passed a
resolution to the effect that if a competitive supply was considered
necessary for the parish such supply should be placed in the hands of
the Vestry, and not those of a public company The Vestry in this
case was not called upon to give an undertaking to lodge a provisional
order last November, as this company, in view of the decision of the
Vestry, failed to lodge with the Board of Trade the requisite deposit,
and their provisional order was allowed to drop
The provisional order now before the Board of Trade is promoted by tho
same company, strengthened by incorporation with the Brush Company
The promoters are styled the " County of London and Brush Provincial
Electric Lighting Company, Limited," and by clause 5 of their Order
they seek lighting powers over the whole parish ; but the " compulsory
area" is only to include under clause 21 Great Dover Street, New
Kent Road, Borough High Street, Newington Causeway, Newington
Butts, Kennington Park Road and Walworth Road, an area which
practically includes all the main thoroughfares of the parish
There is nothing special in the order to which public attention need be
drawn besides mentioning that the order contains (1) the usual power
for the purchase of the undertaking by the local authority, (2) the
company are not to supply energy under the order in force in the
parish without the authority of Parliament, (3) power to the Vestry
to break up and reinstate streets for the purposes of the order at the
expense of the company, (4) to complete the distributing mains for a
general supply throughout the compulsory area within two years
from date of order under a penalty of £5 per day, (5) the right of six or
more owners or occupiers of any street or local authority to call upon
the company to extend the distributing mains subject to the recognised
guarantee to take a certain amount of energy, (6) a requisition from
the Vestry to be accompanied by an agreement to take the energy for
a period of three years for the purpose of street lighting, except to
public lamps within a distance of 75 yards from any distributing main,
the price to be charged to be settled by agreement or arbitration, and
(7) revocation of order if undertakers become insolvent or unable to
work at a profit, or by mutual consent with the local authority
At the first meeting of your Sub-committee on the 13th ult, they considered
a new clause proposed by the company for insertion in their provisional
order, with reference to the transfer to the local authority of the
undertaking By this clause the Vestry could by notice in writing
require the company to sell their undertaking at any time after the
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