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Vestry manufacture. It then became necessary, to
place such restrictions and control upon the Electric
Lighting Company which proposed to parcel out the
parish for the purposes above referred to, as should
prevent that Company from gaining a monopoly
unfavourable to the Parish, in respect, not only to
the Parochial Lighting, but also in the interests of
private consumers—these conditions were exhaustively
considered and eventually forwarded to the
Board of Trade. The Board of Trade subsequently
issued a code of regulations or "model clauses,"
under which the companies would be controlled in
carrying out Electric Lighting under their statutory
powers. These again were most stringently considered
by the Special Committee, and were then
submitted to the Company. Upon further consultation
with the Committee the Company declined to
proceed further with the matter.
It may be remarked that this suspension of the
adoption of Electric Lighting in this parish, for the
present at least and until it is better understood,
has prevented an unnecessary outlay of public
money, and has further rescued the parish, from the
demands of a company which sought to obtain
advantages wholly outside the interests and necessities
of the parish.