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LIGHTING.
There have been, during the past year, 40 memorials and
applications from inhabitants for improved lighting in various
parts of the parish, 33 of which were acceded to, and 7 refused.
During that period there have been 26 new lamps erected, 4
columns substituted for brackets, 2 lamps discontinued, and 35
lamps removed for purposes of improvement.
The total number of lamps lighted by the Vestry at the
present time is 2,214, and the cost for lighting, including the
removal of lamps, and sundry expenses for the year ending the
25th March last, amounted to £10,791 9s. 3d.
The Vestry has succeeded in concluding an arrangement
with the Gas Companies for a considerable reduction in the price
paid for lighting, cleansing, and repairing the public lamps, from
Christmas last.
The prices now paid are as follows:—
The Phœnix Co. 435 lamps at £4 10s. per lamp perann., being a reduction of 7s. 6d.
637 4 15s. 2s. 6d.
TheLondon 578 4 10s. 5s. Od.
The South Me-
Tropotitan327 4 15s. 3s. 6d.
189 4 10s. 8s. 6d.
Crystal Palace 48 5 5s. No reduction.
This reduction is an annual saving to the Parish of about
£525.
The subject of the Gas Companies' districting arrangements,
referred to in the last Annual Report, has continued to
receive the attention of the Vestry, and a Bill is now before
Parliament, promoted by Metropolitan Vestries and District
Boards, and which has recently passed through Committee, for
the purpose of regulating the price and quality of the Gas. This
measure the Vestry hope to render beneficial to the consumers
of Gas, so as to protect them from any disadvantage to which
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