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phone wires, to give power to the local authority to remove any
wires erected or suspended without the consent of the local
authority, or erected or suspended contrary to the requirements
of the local authority, and there is no provision for penalties to
be paid by the company for non-compliance with any requirements
of the said local authority.
(v.) That the provisions of the Rill are wholly inadequate to
safe-guard and protect the inhabitants of your petitioners'
district and the public geuerally from the danger, annoyance,
and inconvenience which will result from tbe erection and
suspension of Telegraph and Telephone wires and the posts and
works connected therewith.
(vi.) That the marginal note to clause 17 of the Bill is misleading,
inasmuch as it states such clause to be " Regulations as to
wires, &c., along, over and across streets," whereas such clause
proposes to give the company power to suspend Telephone
wires along a street at a height not less than that of the fronts
of the houses, abutting upon the street and over a street at the
points of the crossing of such streets, and such power is proposed
to be conferred without any consent from the local authority,
and your petitioners most strongly object to any power
being given to the Company to suspend wires at all over any
street or part of a street, but if the Bill passes into a law it
should be amended by requiring the consent of the local authority
to be given in all cases to tbe erection or suspending of
wires.
(vii.) That the marginal note to clause 25 is also misleading, inasmuch
as it states "Board of Trade may make and enforce rules
for prevention of danger from tbe company's works,'' whereas
the said clause proposes to give power to the Board of Trade
from time to time to make, alter, and repeal rules to be observed
by the local authorities and other persons whose consent
is required to the company's works, aud to impose penalties for
any breach of such rules, and your petitioners strongly object
to any such clause or any such power being given to the Board
of Trade.
That the preamble of tbe Bill is incapable of proof.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that this Bill may not
pass into a law, and that they may be beard by themselves, the counsel,
agents, and witnesses against the same and the Preamble thereof, and
in support of their objections thereto, and that they may have such
other relief in the premises as to your Honourable House may seem
meet.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
Sealed by Order,
THOMAS EDWARD JONES,
Clerk to the Board.
20th February, 1884.