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" Where there are two companies in the same area,
different streets should be scheduled for each.
" With regard to the clauses affecting supply interference,
with streets testing position of stations and
distributing boxes, and other details, the whole of the
suggestions made by the Local Authorities should be
carefully weighed, and those which are considered
necessary, embodied in the model form of order.
" With regard to price, I do not consider that any one
district in the Metropolis should be put in a better
position than another.
" Taking the area as a whole, it does not appear that it
would be wise to fix a lower maximum than 8d. per
unit.
" That in every case the supply of electricity whether
by a Company or by a Local Authority should be
under statutory obligations as well as statutory
powers, by means of a Bill, a Provisional Order, or a
licence.
"4th. That there is no objection to the granting of a
large area of supply to any Company which shows
that it has sufficient capital and is capable of
coping with the demand. On the contrary a large
and rich Company is likely to be the best and most
economically managed concern, to be able by working
over a large and scattered area to develop the
demand for the light, and by rapidly increasing its
business to be sooner in a position to reduce the price
of the article supplied.