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The County of London Electric Lighting Company.
The Great Northern Railway Company.
The North London Railway Company.
The Midland Railway Company.
Mr. H. C. Stephens, M.P.
These objections—some of which were formal ones merely—have
now been satisfactorily disposed of. The Board of Trade have
intimated that the order will be granted to the Vestry, but that the
Board propose to extend the compulsory area along Seven Sisters' Road
to the boundary of the parish at Finsbury Park. The objection of
Mr. Stephens to the granting of the order has been met by an understanding
that the Vestry will, within two years from the commencement
of the order, lay down a suitable and sufficient distributing main along
St. Thomas' Road to Mr. Stephens' manufactory at the corner of
St. Thomas' and Gillespie Roads, on terms, failing agreement, to be
determined by an arbitrator to be appointed, at the request of either
party, by the Board of Trade.
VISITS TO ELECTRIC LIGHT STATIONS.
As a preliminary step, your Committee appointed a Sub-Committee
of twelve members to view the principal Electric Lighting Installations
in the metropolitan district, with a view to obtaining reliable information
by personal inquiry and inspection of the various methods of supply.
Having regard also to the importance of the question at issue, and to
enable it to report satisfactorily to the Vestry on the different systems
of electric lighting now in working, and the system best suitable for
adoption in this Parish, your Committee thought it most desirable that
the Sub-Committee of View should visit and obtain full particulars
and information regarding the intallations carried out by other local
authorities, and it accordingly instructed the Sub-Committee of View
to appoint a deputation to visit the electric lighting stations constructed
by the Corporations of Brighton, Bradford, Southampton, or such other
places as might be selected for that purpose. Some of these were visited