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In order to reduce the cost of public lighting the Board conferred
with the Gas Company upon the subject, and ultimately it was resolved
to rearrange the schedule of hours for lighting and extinguishing the
street lamps, reducing the period of burning to 3635 hours 20
minutes per annum under this arrangement, and having regard to the
general reduction in the price of gas at that period, from 3s. 9d. to 3s. 6d.
per 1000 cubic feet, the company undertook the supply of lighting,
extinguishing, cleansing, and repairing the 1079 ordinary lamps supplied
by them at the rate of £4 2s. each per annum, as shewn
below:—
Lamp burning 3635 at 5 cubic feet per hour= £ s. d:
18,175 feet at 3s. 6d. per 1000 3 3 8
Add for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, and
repairs 0 18 6
£4 2 2
Thus lessening the expenditure for lighting by One Company alone by
the sum of £507 18s. per aunum.
Having completed the arrangements with the Brentford Gas Company,
the Board negotiated with the other Companies supplying the
district, viz., the Gas Light and Coke Company, and the Londou Gas
Light Company (now amalgamated with the Gas Light and Coke
Company) with the result that the same schedule of hours was agreed
upon, and the price per lamp reduced by the Gas Light and Coke
Company from £4 16s. 1d., and by tbe London Gas Company from
£4 14s. 8d. to £3 10s. per annum in each case, reducing the payment
to these companies yearly by £1134 12s. 6d. The total amount saved
yearly by the new arrangement is £1642 10s. 6d.
The following is the schedule above referred to;—