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The lamp columns and lanterns arc provided and fixed
and charged for, by the respective Companies, to this Yestry,
in addition to the foregoing, thus:—
South Metropolitan Gas Company £2 17s. 6d.
Crystal Palace Gas Company £3 0s. 0d.
Mem.—These prices are also to be reduced in the immediate
future, the former to £2 9s. Od. and the latter to
£2 10s. Od., subject to revision if the price of iron varies.
With regard to the public lighting it may here be stated
that a Special Lighting Committee was appointed by the
Yestry in November, 1881, "To consider the subject of the
gas lighting of the Parish with regard to its possible improvement,
and also as to applying the meter system to this
Parish,' and that, after the most searching investigation, the
testing of meters, the testing of governors, the comparison of
the public lighting in this Parish with that of St. Pancras,
Shoreditch, Paddington, St. George's Hanover square, and
Kensington, the Committee presented their Report to the
Yestry on the 23rd of March last, in which they "recommended
the Yestry to adopt the average meter system, and
to affix a registered meter to every 24 lamps throughout the
Parish."
This recommendation, while being unanimous by the
Special Lighting Committee which consisted of nine members,
was accompanied by a special reservation on behalf of two
of its members, to the effect that they agreed with the
recommendation to adopt the meter system, not, however, on
the ground of a probable saving in the cost of the lighting,