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ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
Notices having been received by this Board and also by the
Whitechapel Board, the Poplar Board, and the Vestries of St.
George in the East and Mile End Old Town from the Metropolitan
(Brush) Electric Light and Power Company of their intention to
apply to the Board of Trade for a Provisional Order to authorise
them to supply Electricity for public and private purposes in this
and the adjoining Districts, meetings of the Clerks and Surveyors
of the various Districts which would be effected by the Provisional
Order were held at the Office of the Whitechapel District Board,
and there being many objections to the form of the proposed Order
and it being necessary to comply with the Rules of the Board of
Trade that such objections should be stated in detail, it was considered
advisable that the Provisional Order should be sent in
amended in the same form by all the Districts affected, and with this
view Messrs. Dyson & Son, Parliamentary Agents, were instructed
to act on behalf of the several Districts, and the objections
to the Order and the suggested amendments therein were subsequently
deposited with the Board of Trade and the Solicitors for the
Promoters.
EAST LONDON TRAMWAYS.
A Notice was received from the East London Tramways
Company of their intention to apply to Parliament in the ensuing
Session for leave to bring in a Bill for the construction of certain
Tramways in West India Dock Road and other places in this and the
adjoining District of Poplar. The Notice was referred to the
Works and Survey Committee for consideration, and they recommended
the Board for certain reasons, to refuse its assent to the
scheme of the promoters, and the Company subsequently withdrew
from the Bill so much of the proposed line as was situate in the
Limehouse District.