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proaching completion, and consent has teen given to the
laying of mains for the lighting of Burlington Arcade and
certain other streets and places.
The area of supply of this Company is coterminous with
the boundary of the Parish.
Applications were received from three other Companies,
the London Electric Supply Corporation, the House to House
Electric Light Supply Company, and the Westminster
Electric Supply Corporation. As the first-mentioned Company
are already supplying electric light in the Parish,
although outside the provisions of the Act, the Vestry
decided not to offer any opposition to the granting of a Provisional
Order to them, subject to certain conditions, as the
withdrawal of that Company might cause at least a temporary
inconvenience to such of the parishioners as are
drawing their supply of light from them. These conditions
not being accepted, the Vestry will object to an order beinggranted
to the Company. As regards the applications from
the other Companies, in view of the small area of the Parish,
the loss and annoyance that would result from the unnecessarily
frequent disturbance of the streets arising from an
unduly large number of Companies at work in the same
area, the probability of an increased charge for the light
that would be caused by an excessive expenditure of capital
in duplicating mains unnecessarily, and the precautions
adopted for securing competition, the Vestry have decided
not to assent to the introduction of any further general
installations into the Parish at present.
STREETS PARTLY SITUATE IN OTHER
PARISHES.
An order was made by the Metropolitan Board of Works
on the 6th March, 1857, placing that portion of Oxford