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London Hydraulic Power Company.
This Company was empowered by Acts of Parliament
passed in the years 1871 and 188 4 to supply Hydraulic
Power in the Metropolis and, subject to certain conditions,
to lay their mains under the Public Ways. Several
applications have been received from the Company and
dealt with during the past year. In each case they have
been granted, subject to proper restrictions for protecting
the interests of the Board and its rate-payers.
Hackney Carriage Standings.
This subject has been dealt with in previous Reports and
in the month of May last a communication was received
intimating that the Commissioner of Police had appointed
Hackney Carriage Standings as follows :—
20 in the Centre of the roadway of High Holborn between
Grays Inn Road and Chancery Lane, 18 between Red Lion
Yard and Little Queen Street, 15 between Southampton
Street a-id Bloomsbury Court and 5 in New Oxford Street,
between Duke Street and Bloomsbury Street.
Upon consideiation of the matter the Board came to the
conclusion that parts at all events of the proposed standings
were unsuitable, and they protested against the action taken
by the Commissioner on the grounds that the roadways of
the parts particularly referred to were too narrow for the
purpose. The matter was referred to the Clerk and the
Engineer and Surveyor to the Board, who had an interview
with the Chief Constable of the Metropolis upon the subject,
with the result that those parts of the Streets which the
Board objected to were abandoned by the Commissioner
and others substituted.