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13
FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
OF
THE BOARD OF WORKS
FOR THE
WANDSWORTH DISTRICT,
Being for the year ended 25th March, 1896.
The proceedings taken by the Board to
Electric Lighting.
prevent the construction in the public
way of transformer chambers, to which reference was
made in the last Report, were unsuccessful, Mr. Justice
Stirling deciding that in face of the approval of the
chambers by the Board of Trade he could not hold
that they did not come within the term "boxes" which
the Company were authorised to construct in streets.
The Board have agreed with the Electric Lighting
Company the positions of the chambers throughout
the District, and the laying of the mains, &c.,
is now almost completed. A generating station at
the Causeway, Wandsworth, is in course of erection,
and in connection therewith the Board have made
arrangements with the Company for the Causeway
to be made 20 feet wide throughout and paved, and
for the diversion of the footpath there along the line
of the new road.