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" 5th. That in the abstract competition is desirable
as tending to keep down the price and to cause the
manufacture and supply of electricity to be carried
on with all the attention and energy which it is
possible to devote to it."
With reference to the London Electric Supply Corporation,
this Company have obtained power to light the following
localities :—Portion of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields ; portion
of St. Margaret's and St. John's, Westminster; St. James,
Westminster; St. George, Hanover Square; Chelsea; the
Greenwich District; St. Mary, Rotherhithe; St. Mary,
Bermondsey; the District of St. Olave; the District of St.
Saviour; Christ Church ; and that portion of St. Mary,
Lambeth, lying North of Westminster Bridge Road. It is
surprising that Major Marindin, although he treats of the
whole Metropolis in his Report, no reference or mention is
made of this extensive parish as to Electric Lighting, but it
is left out in the cold, and would have been utterly ignored
but that the London Electric Lighting Company have now
given notice of their application for a Provisional Order.
We conclude that this Parish is difficult to supply on
account of its large area. On the other hand, the Vestry of
Lambeth have now been served with five notices for Provisional
Orders for Electric Lighting.
We are not aware that any of the Parishes or District
Boards have applied for Orders save that of St. Pancras, we
have written to the latter parish on the subject, but have
not received any reply. We fully anticipated that the
Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, who are
always anxious to improve, beautify, and illuminate the
City, would have made an application for an Order, but we