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answer (b)—
Provision should be made for the granting of these powers in the Provisional
Orders of the Board of Trade subject to confirmation by Parliament. Such provision
would facilitate a continuance of the existing practice, according to which more or
less uniform conditions under which undertakers are to work are provisionally settled
by the Board of Trade. Procedure by private bill should be reserved as at present
for exceptional cases,
of the report of the Joint Select Committee, this Conference is of opinion that all existing
undertakings should share in the advantages suggested by these clauses.
5. That as regards question 3—
Whether, in case of a generating station, however acquired, not being situate within
the area of supply, power should be given for the breaking up of streets between
the generating station and the boundary of the area of supply,
in the report of the Joint Select Committee, the Conference is of opinion that it should
be left to the Local Authority to decide the route.
6. That the Chairman of the Highways Committee of the London County Council
be empowered to present to Parliament the resolutions arrived at by the Conference
with reference to the supply of electricity in bulk.
On Gth September, 1898, the Vestry had before them a letter from the Clerk, Wandsworth
District Board, with copy resolutions passed by that Board in favour of the Telephone Service
being exclusively exercised by the Government, and not undertaken by the London
County Council and the other local authorities, and of the undertaking' and property of
the National Telephone Company being taken over by the Post Office, when it was
Resolved to support the action taken by the Wandsworth District Board in the matter.
On 7th March, 1899, Mr. Mortimer reported that, in company with Messrs. Sparkes and
Beasley, he attended the Conference convened by the City Corporation to consider the
National Telephone Company's Bills in Parliament, held at the Guildhall, on Wednesday,
the 1st March, when the following resolutions were passed: —