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objections to the schemes.
According to the notice at the end of the draft order, objections to the
Bills must be lodged with the Board of Trade on or before the 1st day of
February, 1890.
1st. Although the two Companies appear to be satisfactory with
reference to responsibility and pecuniary status, they both include the same
area, and considerable unnecessary disturbance would result if they each
obtained the powers they sought.
2nd. There is not sufficient demand in the district to at present justify
the granting Provisional Orders.
This is practically admitted by the Companies, only one of which has
scheduled five streets in this district, in which it undertakes to lay mains
within the 2 years.
When a demand arises the Vestry would much prefer to carry out a
scheme of their own to meet it.
3rd.—That the power to purchase by the Local Authorities should be at
the end of 21 years, and each subsequent 7 years instead of 42 and
10 years.
4th.—That the proposed maximum price of 8d. per unit is too high;
also that a fixed sliding scale of price and dividend, as inserted in the House
to House Kensington Provisional Order, should be adopted.
5th.—The Vestry should have a voice in the prohibition of overhead
wires.
6th.—If the Board of Trade should sanction one or both of the
applications, separate accounts should be kept for the Fulham District.
7th.—The Vestry should also have power to audit accounts of Companies
as well as Board of Trade.
8th.—The Companies should state the form of meter it is proposed to
adopt.
9th.—Whether the engines are to be condensing or non-condensing, and
worked at low or high speed.
10th.—The intended positions of works and complete drawings and
particulars of the proposed schemes.
I regret the length of the report, which I have endeavoured to condense
as much as possible.
I remain,
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
JAMES P. NORRINGTON,
Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E.
Surveyor to the Vestry.