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Streets Shouting. 45.—Complaints having been made of annoyance caused by
street hawkers shouting their wares on Sundays the
Council in November last made the following byelaw
on the subject, viz.:—
"No person shall, for the purpose of hawking, selling or advertising
"any goods, call or shout in any street on Sundays so as to cause
"annoyance to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Penalty—Any
"person who shall offend against the foregoing Bye-law shall be liable
"for every such offence, to a fine of not exceeding forty shillings."
Gas Testing.
46.—Under the Wandsworth and Putney Gas Act, 1900,
the Council are authorised to provide and maintain
two places, one at Wandsworth and the other at
Putney, and the Company are to provide, erect, and maintain at
such places apparatus for testing the purity and illuminating
power of the gas supplied by the Company. The Council set
apart a portion of the late Putney Parish Offices for this purpose
and the Company having provided the necessary apparatus the
Council has made arrangements for daily tests to be made at the
new testing place of the illuminating power and purity of the gas
supplied by the Company. The earlier examinations under the
new arrangement showed an excess of sulphur beyond the limits
prescribed by the Act. The attention of the Company having
been called to the matter, they stated in reply that at the time the
Act was passed the purifiers were under re-arrangement with
additions on a large scale, and that the work of reconstruction was
not quite complete, but that the new purifiers would be in full
operation by the third week in December. The subsequent daily
tests showed that, except on four days in January when an
accident happened at the works, the statutory limit had not been
exceeded since.
Supply of Gas.
47.—The Board of Trade having appointed a Committee
to inquire as to the statutory requirements relating
to the illuminating power and purity of gas supplied
by Metropolitan Gas Companies, and as to the methods now
adopted for testing the same, this Council informed the Board of
Trade that three of the Companies which supply gas in this
Borough are not subject to the provisions of the Metropolitan Gas
Acts and suggested that such provisions should extend and apply