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Seven aditional lamps have been erected, two lamps
discontinued, and the positions of seven lamps altered during
the year:
NEW LAMPS.
Luxford Street 1
Corbetts Lane 1
Cornick Street 1
Neptune Street side of Town Hall (temporary) 2
Lower Road, front of Town Hall do. 2
— 7
LAMPS DISCONTINUED.
Providence Place 1
Baker's Rents 1
2
— 5
Total 510
LAMPS ALTERED.
Luxford Street: owing to additional lamp in street.
Rotherhithe Street: (2) on account of new footway opposite South Wharf.
Nolan Place : bracket to column.
Osprey Street: to improved position.
Ccrnick Street : owing to additional lamp in street.
Slipper's Place : ditto Cornick Street.
The experiments with incandescent burners to five lamps upon the Union Road was
continued to the 17th June, 1896, from the 14th November, 1895—a period extending over
216 nights, or 2,212 lighting hours per lamp, and upon the 7th July I presented the
following report:—
Consumption per hour ordinary street burners 5 cubic feet
Do. incandescent burners with pilot light, say 4¼ „
Saving in gas ¾ cubic feet per hour per lamp, or 15 per cent. = 8,295 cubic feet for the
5 lamps during the above-mentioned period.
Average number of mantles used per lamp, 15.
Average life of mantles, 14.4 nights, or 147½ lighting hours.