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Street, the Broadway, and Hammersmith Road to the City and
North-East London, and for acquiring lands in Hammersmith
for a generating station. The House of Commons on the 4th July
suspended for that Session the proceedings upon the Bill, with
liberty to the promotors to proceed with the Bill in the next
Session at the stage at which it was suspended. The promotors
gave notice to the Council on the 30th January, 1907, that
they had decided not to avail themselves of this suspension,
but to drop the Bill for the time being.
2. Electric Power Bills.
The several Electricity Bills introduced in the Session of
1906, referred to in the last report, came before a Select
Committee of the House of Commons which, after hearing
the evidence for and against the London County Council Bill,
issued a special report, in which it expressed the opinion
that the best means of providing for the supply of
electrical energy, in bulk, and for power and motive
purposes, was by one large and comprehensive scheme
extending not only over the entire county of London, but also
to adjoining boroughs and districts, and that the authority for
carrying out such scheme should be the London County
Council; and that, pending the introduction of a satisfactory
Bill in the next Session by the London County Council, or, in
default of that body, then by some competent body of
promoters, it was not advisable that any further progress
should be made with any of the Bills.
Four Bills have been introduced into Parliament in the
Session of 1907, for powers to supply electrical energy in
London, viz.:—
(a) London County Council (Electric Supply)
Bill.—Proposal to enable the Council to supply electrical
energy in London and certain surrounding districts, and to
empower the Council to acquire the undertakings of local
authorities in the County of London, and the undertakings
of companies within the proposed area of supply.
(b) Administrative County of London and
District Electric Power Bill.— Proposal to enable
the undertakers and the London County Council to enter into
an agreement for the purpose of generating and supplying
electrical energy within the area of supply above
referred to.