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Fire Brigade Station in Neighbourhood of Knightsbridge
Green or Sloane Square.
The Vestry having been asked by a Deputation, from the
Westminster District Board of Works, to join in an application
to the Metropolitan Board of Works for a Fire Brigade
Station to be placed in the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge
Green, after consideration, by writing, urged on the Metropolitan
Board the necessity for the erection of a Fire
Brigade Station in the vicinity of Knightsbridge or Sloane
Square; and the Board, in reply, informed the Vestry that
the funds now applicable to Fire Brigade purposes will not
admit of any addition to the number of stations at present;
that should, however, increased funds be placed at the disposal
of the Board, the Board will probably be in a position
to increase to some extent, the number of stations; and in
that case the claims of the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge
and Sloane Square shall be duly considered.
Gas Supply to Public Lamps.
Six Resolutions of the Vestry, under this head, were
printed in last year's Report. In continuation, the Vestry
have now to add that they have arranged with the London
Gaslight and Coke Company for a reduction in the number
of lighting hours for the public lamps in the district supplied
by them from about 4500, to 3836 hours per annum.
They also accepted an offer of the Company to transfer
the services from the cannel to the common gas mains.
Whilst the arrangement for reducing the number of lighting
hours, will prove a saving in cost to the parish, the
alteration in the services makes the charge for gas supply
somewhat heavier. The Vestry feel assured, though, that