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And on 17th December, 1895, the Clerk reported with reference to the instructions
given to the Surveyor at the last meeting, that he had looked up the Metropolis
Management Acts as to the powers of the Vestry in the matter, and under the Metropolis
Gas Act, 1860, Sections 27 and 28, the Vestry had power to provide sufficient apparatus for
testing the illuminating power and purity of the gas supplied in the District, and could
appoint and pay a Chemical Examiner or Gas Engineer or other competent person to be an
examiner for the purposes of the Act, and stated that the London County Council had
already appointed a Gas Examiner who made weekly returns of his testings to the Council,
copies of which were supplied to each Vestry and District Board, and that the nearest Gas
Testing Station to this Parish was in Tooley Street.
Resolved—That application be made to the London County Council requesting them
to establish a Gas Testing Station in the Parish, and nearer the works of the South
Metropolitan Gas Company, so that the gas directly supplied in the Parish may be tested
by their Examiner.
On 21st January, 1896, the Vestry had before them a letter from the Clerk, London
County Council, in reply to Vestry's letter, forwarding copy of a report by the Chemist of the
Council as to the gas testing arrangements in London, containing the following
recommendation:—
"That the Gas Referees be further asked to prescribe two testing stations for the purpose of
testing the gas supplied by the South Metropolitan Gas Co., to the Districts of Rotherhithe, Deptford
and Greenwich, as the present nearest stations at Tooley Street and Lewisham are obviously
inadequate for the purpose,"
and stating that he had written the Referees asking if any action had been taken upon such
recommendation.
The Clerk was instructed to again write to the Council upon the subject.
On 4th February, 1896, a letter was submitted to the Vestry from the Clerk to the
London County Council stating that a letter had been recaived by the Council
from the Metropolitan Gas Referees stating that the recommendation forwarded by the
Council with regard to the provision of additional testing places for the testing of
supplied by the South Metropolitan Gas Company should receive early attention.
Nothing further had been heard on the subject up to the close of tho year.