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THE PRICE OF GAS.
The price of common gas to ordinary consumers was reduced
on the 1st of January to 2s. 6d. per 1,000 feet. This
is higher than the price charged for public lighting, the difference
arising from the Gas Light and Coke Company
being required by law to charge, for public purposes, the same
price as is charged to private consumers in the District of
the South Metropolitan Gas Company, even although their
profits may not be sufficient to warrant a general reduction
in price.
PRIVATE LAMPS.
The Vestry some years since decided not to permit the
erection of Private Lamps, except upon the following conditions
:—
1. That no part of such Lamps shall be less than 10 feet in height
from the public footway.
2. That no such Lamps shall in any case project further than the
inside of the kerb bounding the footway.
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