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Melrose Road (Triangle), Wandsworth—Garden enclosure bounded
on the east and west by the roadways of Viewfield Road at the junction of
that road with Melrose Road and on the south by Melrose Road.
69. This Council approved of the Bill which received the
Royal assent on the 4th August, 1906.
London County
Council
Electric Supply
and other
Electric Supply
Bills.
70. I he Council considered the provisions of 12 Bills dealing
with the subject of the supply of electricity in the
County of London and surrounding districts, the
principal one being introduced by the London
County Council. The main general object of
this Bill was to enable the London County Council to supply
electricity in bulk to authorised distributors or local authorities or
Companies authorised by Parliament within the Administrative
County of London and certain adjoining Boroughs in the Counties
of Essex, Kent, Surrey and Middlesex.
71. The Bill also proposed to confer on the Council powers
to supply electrical energy direct to railways, docks, tramways
and various other undertakings and also to transform, distribute
and use electrical energy in various buildings, works or undertakings
belonging to or maintained by them, or under their control;
but this power was not to apply to schools and various other
buildings, parks, open spaces, pleasure grounds or workmen's
dwellings without the consent of the authorised distributor.
72. This Council decided to take no action with regard to
either of the Bills, but communicated with the County Council
with the view of the insertion of provisions safe-guarding the
interests of the Borough.
73. The County Council's Bill was referred to a Select Committee
of the House of Commons, who decided that the preamble
of the Bill was not proved, and in a special report pointed out
that the supply of electrical energy in the County of London and
adjoining districts was in the hands of various local authorities
and companies, that up to the present time the capital expended
by local authorities was about 6½ millions and by Companies
about 12 millions and that capital expenditure was proceeding
at the rate of one million a year, and stated that they were
of opinion that the best means of providing for the supply