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Electric Lighting.
Putney and Hammersmith Light and Supply Company, Ltd. In accordance with the resolution of the Vestry of the
2nd December, 1891, the Surveyor, on the 8th December, 1891,
made his report to the Lighting Committee on the application
by the Putney and Hammersmith Lighting and Supply Company, Limited,
for powers to supply electricity from Stanfeld's Brewery to "Cedar Road,
and the Committee, having considered same, referred the report to the
Law and Parliamentary Committee, with a recommendation to oppose, and
on the 6th January, 1892, the latter Committee reported to the Vestry that
they had instructed the Solicitor to oppose the application in question,
which report was adopted by the Vestry. The Solicitor was further
instructed to serve the Board of Trade and the London County Council
with the objections which the Vestry raised to the application of the Putney
and Hammersmith Electric Light and Power Supply Company, Limited,
for a Provisional Order which were sealed by the Vestry on the 3rd February,
1892, and at the Vestry on the 2nd March, 1892, a letter was read
from the Secretary of Company, stating that they had abandoned the
present application for obtaining powers for supplying electricity to the
Parish of Fulham.
Dust Disposal.
Appointment of Sub-Committee On the September, 1891, your Sanitary Committee
appointed a Sub-Committee, consisting of nine members, with
Mr. George Williams, as Chairman, to consider and advise as to the best
means to adopt for the disposal of house refuse, slop, manure, &c., of this
parish, either by incineration, sorting or barging away.
The Clerk to the Vestry having, by circular letter, ascertained the practice
adopted by various Vestries and District Boards in disposing of their dust,
&c., and the Sub-Committee having carefully considered the replies received,
determined to visit a few of the depots in order, by personal observation
and enquiries, to ascertain which, in their opinion, was the best mode of
disposing of the same, having due regard to cost.
Homsey Destructor They accordingly in the first place, visited the Destructor
. erected in 1890, by the Homsey Local Board, at their Depot
at High Street, Hornsey (which Destructor is considered by Engineers and
others to be the best of its kind) and from information obtained on the spot
it appeared that the land and works on which the Destructor was erected
cost £8,006, that the cost of collecting and carting the refuse to the
Destructor, amounted to 10d. per load, and the burning to 9d. per ton, and
that the lecoupment from the sale of clinker, fine ashes, etc., only amounted
to 2s. per load, whilst there was a residue of about 25 per cent, from which
the Board were unable to derive a greater pecuniary benefit than 3d. per