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as they could possibly see their way to do so. Under these
circumstances the Board determined that no further extension
of electric lighting facilities in the District was
necessary. Subsequently the matter was again brought
before the Board, when a memorial, signed by a very large
number of inhabitants of houses and business premises in
the District, was submitted, and having obtained from both
Companies a statement of the prices at which they were
prepared to supply energy, the Board determined that they
would give their consent to both of the applications. In
due course Provisional Orders were applied for, and, after
modifications had taken place in the drafts with a view of
affording further protection to the ratepayers, the Orders
were confirmed by the Board of Trade and the necessary
Bill for the confirmation of the same will be introduced
into Parliament during the present Session.
Metropolitan Electric Supply Company's Bill.
The Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, Limited,
who are, under the terms of their Mid-London Order of
1889, supplying energy to the St. Giles District, are
promoting a Bill for conferring further powers on the
Company and enabling them to establish a generating
station at Acton and Willesden, in the County of Middlesex,
for the purpose of supplying electricity for, among other
undertakings, their Mid-London Order. As it is possible
that this legislation may injuriously affect the interests of
the St. Giles District a Petition against the Bill has been
presented, but at the time of preparing this report the proceedings
on the Bill have been suspended, and the whole
question of the generation of electrical energy and of