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Under the Old Contract System, taking gas at
3s. 2d. per 1,000 cubic feet, the Vestry would have
paid the Gas Company for gas only, per lamp per
annum, £3 7s. 5½d., while under the Average Meter
System the cost for gas is only £2 14s. 6½d. per lamp
per annum.
From the September Quarter, 1874, the Vestry
have purchased the gas used for public lighting
purposes, under the Average Meter System, and had
the entire control of all matters relating thereto.
The number of lamps at the end of September, 1874,
was 1,700, they now number 1,892.
The lamp services generally throughout the
Parish are maintained by the Gas Company most
efficiently. During the year they have been applied
to 141 times for the rectification of defective service
pipes, all of which they have attended to at their
own cost.
Refuge Lamps.—In addition to the 17 onehundred
candle power lamps erected last year, 6
more have been fixed at various rests, also 12 twentyfive
candle power lamps at street corners, a complete
list of which I submit on page 63.
Damages to the following extent have been done
to the public lamps during the year, through carelessness
or accidents, viz.:—16 lamp-posts knocked
down, 29 lamp columns broken, and 30 head-irons
and lanterns broken and damaged. The rectification