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The following is a copy of a letter forwarded to the Board of Trade: —
Town Hall,
Rotherhithe,
18th January, 1899.
County of London (South-east) Electric
Lighting Provisional Order.
Sir,
Referring to the application of the County of London and Brush Provincial Electric
Lighting Company, Limited, for the above-mentioned Order, I am directed by the Vestry
to inform you that they strongly object to the grant of the proposed Order as unnecessary
and inexpedient for the following reasons : —
1. That the Vestry have not consented to the proposed Order, and the Company
can show no sufficient reason to the Board of Trade for dispensing with such consent.
2. That ample provision already exists in the Parish for the supply of electric
current to those who require it, inasmuch as the Board of Trade have as long ago as
1889 granted a Provisional Order to the London Electric Supply Corporation, Limited,
to supply electric energy within the Parish, which Order was confirmed by Parliament
on 26th August, 1889.
3. That although the Confix-mation Order before-mentioned contained provision for
the compulsory laying down of mains for the supply of current in Rotherhithe Street,
Lower Road and Union Road within a period of two years from the date of the Order,
the Corporation have not been enabled to carry out the terms of the Order in this
respect through lack of demand for supply of electric current until quite recently.
4. That the said Corporation have now laid distributing mains in Lower Road
and Union Road and are prepared to lay similar mains in Rotherhithe Street when
required.
5. That the compulsory works contained in the draft Order of the County of
London and Brush Provincial Electric Lighting Company relate to Union Road, Albion
Street, Rotherhithe Street, Lower Road and Swan Lane, which said streets and roads,
with the exception of Albion Street and Swan Lane, are already dealt with by the
London Electric Supply Corporation, Limited.