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politan "Board was referred to a Select Committee, with power to call a
public meeting. It appeared that the evidence needed was of a purely
scientific, technical kind, which the Metropolitan Board was better able
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to obtain ; but a public meeting was called, at which Mr. Flintoff, a Gas
Engineer, attended, and gave, at great length, detailed information.
According to his statement, the price of Gas is much in excess of what it
need be. The Commissioners appointed by the Board of Trade—notwithstanding
the strenuous opposition to the application for permission to
increase the price of Gas—reported in favour of the application, and the
prices charged in respect of Public Lamps are now—
Lamps consuming 5 ft. per hour £5 0 0
Lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, repairing, & c 0 18 0
£5 18 0
Lamps consuming 3 ft. per hour £3 0 0
Lighting, &cc 0 18 0
£3 18 0
With a few exceptions the lamps are those supposed to consume 5 ft.
per hour, and the increase of price made during the year will cause an
additional expenditure of above £1200, equivalent to a rate of l½d. in
the pound.
FOURNIER'S CHARITY.
Of the applicants, 38 were found on application eligible as candidates,
out of whom the following were elected and received the gift:—
Clapp, Ann, 7, "Wellington street, Old Ford road.
Geeves, John, 225, Sydney terrace, Green street.
Grassby, John, 20, Hackney road.
Hackman, George, 6, Robert street.
Hall, Miles, 157, Gosset street.
Herring, Stephen, 20, Canrobert street.
Lewis, John, 83, Mape street.
Nichols, Robert, 42, John street.
Plummer, Elizabeth, 1, Globe street.
Richardson, Daniel, 48, Edward street.
Taylor, Maria, 3, Mount street.
Vondome, William, 48, Busby street.
Woodward, Joseph, 2, Caroline street.
Yerworth, William, 12, Hague street.