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sumption is ascertained by the average readings of
93 meters, being about 1 in 20. The indices were
taken monthly, the quantity working out 4.42 cubic
feet per hour. 37,434,279 cubic feet of gas were consumed
over all the lamps during the year.
Refuge and Special Lamps.—There are 19 100candle
power Sugg's Lambeth Lamps, 8 80-candle
power Bray's Lamps, and 14 Sugg's York Lanterns,
consuming 8 cubic feet per hour. Each of these lamps
have a meter attached, the indices being read monthly.
Their positions are recorded on page 12.
Sutherland Avenue Lamps.—Complaints having
been made of the inefficient lighting of Sutherland
Avenue, which is double the width of an ordinary
roadway and planted with trees on each side of kerb,
it was decided in April, 1885, to discontinue the side
lamps, and light from the centre of the roadway by 10
of Sugg's 100-candle power Lambeth pattern Lamps,
placed equidistant, say nearly 200 feet apart, and this
arrangement has proved most satisfactory in lighting
this thoroughfare, the consumption of the lamps being
ascertained by the average readings of 5 meters.
Prices of Gas and Defective Services. —The gas to
the Public Lamps is supplied by the Gas Light & Coke
Company at 2s. 6d. per 1,000 cubic feet, they also
undertaking to maintain iu an efficient state all supply
pipes up to the base of the lamp-post. In the 12