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The Vestry understand that the Board of Trade did not
take any proceedings for the recovery of the penalties
referred to in the foregoing letter.
Some further correspondence ensued with the Board of
Trade on a suggestion that the regulations applicable to
this particular Company should be supplemented so as to
insure adequate precautions being taken by syphoning at
frequent stated intervals, or otherwise, to prevent any
accumulation of water or gas in the culverts or distributingboxes
of the Company.
The Board of Trade referred the matter to Major Cardew,
whose memorandum on the point is as follows:—
memorandum.
The responsibility for exact compliance with regulations should rest
on the undertakers. With regard to the proposal for issue of Supplemental
Regulations, as the undertakers have stated that they are prepared
to carry out the recommendations contained in my Report of 3rd
November, 1891, and as I have visited their station on several occasions
since this date and found that active steps in this direction are in progress,
about 60 syphon drains having already been fixed, I do not consider
it necessary to issue the proposed Supplemental Regulations. My Report
shows that the accidents which have occurred were clearly due to
^attention to the regulations now imposed, and this has not been
contested by the Undertakers.
(Signed) P. CARDEW.
16th December, 1891.
The Vestry had hoped that the action which was then
taken in the matter would have been sufficient to ensure a
due regard to the regulations which have been imposed