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Select Committee, but at the date of preparing this Report
the Committee have not met to consider it.*
(c) PROVISIONAL ORDERS.
STRAND & ST. GILES.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
Notices were deposited by the Electric Supply Corporation
of their intention to apply for a Provisional Order
under the Electric Lighting Acts, 1882-1888, for lighting
the St. Giles District.
The Plans were deposited, but the Order was never prepared,
and nothing further has been done.
TI1E METROPOLITAN ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY
(LIMITED).
In the last Report reference was made to the Enquiry
held by Major Marindin, C.M.G., R.E., into the proposals of
the London Electric Supply Corporation and the Metropolitan
Electric Supply Company, at which he decided that
powers should be granted to the Metropolitan Electric
Supply Company to supply electricity in the St. Giles
District. The Provisional Order as settled by the Board of
Trade was amended by the House of Commons, and in a
somewhat altered form passed into law at the close of the
Session.
The Company lost no time in using the powers conferred
upon them, and before the end of the year 188y, they had
already laid a considerable length of mains and tubes. The
works of the Company extensively affected the Streets
under the control the Board, and Mr. George Wallace, the
Board's Engineer and Surveyor, wan invested by the Board
with all necessary powers for protecting its interests. For
* The Committee have since passed the Bill with considerable modifications,
but it has been rejected on third reading.
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