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For those reasons I am of opinion that, for the present, powers should
not be given to more than two Companies over the same area, and,
inasmuch as the Companies supplying under the. alternating
current and transformer system cannot supply electric energy
capable of use for motors, that both these two Companies should
not be those using this system.
In order, therefore, to leave room for the entrance of a direct supply
Company into an area where two alternating current transformer
Companies have been assented to, it will be necessary to choose
one only of these Companies, and this will lead to a certain
amount of districting.
(6.) That wherever a Company now supplying a district by
means of overhead wires is granted an Order for such area,
it should be placed under the obligation to remove these
overhead wires within a period of two years from the
granting of the Order; and, if such a thing be possible,
that this Company should be prevented from invading a
district in which it has not got powers by means of overhead
wires.
(7.) That in order to reduce as much as possible the disturbance
of streets, clauses should be drafted making it obligatory
for Companies to lay their mains in existing subways, and
to transfer them into subways which may be made in the
future, upon being called upon to do so.
If possible it would also be advisable to provide that, wherever
circumstances admit of it, and where there is no subway, the
conduits put down to lay the mains should be made capable of
accommodating the mains of both Companies in the area, if there
be two Companies having powers therein.
To a certain extent also it would appear to be right that the local
authorities should have the power of objecting to the sites for
generating, as distinguished from distributing stations, subject to
an appeal to the Board of Trade.
With the conclusions arrived at by Major Marindin the
Vestry generally agreed, but they dissented from his recommendation,
in a subsequent portion of the Report (which it