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the supply and give evidence that it proposes to apple
for permission to do so, and this should apply with
more force when it can be shewn that the exclusion
of a Company from such an area would injurious???
affect the service of other contiguous areas.
"That in dealing with this question it should be cor???
sidercd as one affecting the interests of the Metropol???
as a whole, and as an area which at no very dista???
time may be for the purposes of lighting and manage
ment of roads and streets under the control of on
central authority, and that therefore the whole of the
provisional orders granted for the Metropolitan area
should as far as possible be identical in form, with
identical provisions as to supply compulsory powers
and interference with streets and more than all as to
price.
"In my opinion the scheme adopted in 1883 of dividing
the area of supply into two areas (A) and (B) would
not be likely to work so much to the advantage
of the public as the proposal in most of the Orders
under consideration to make the supply compulsory
under requisition over the whole area upon equal
terms.
" I consider however that in order to ensure that some
work shall be at once undertaken in every parish or
district within the area of supply under such Order
that there should be a list of streets scheduled for
compulsory laying of mains and a deposit made in
every case where the local authority may wish to
have it.