GAS COMPANIES.
I find myself very much in sympathy with the protests made from time to time by gas companies against any attempts made by housing authorities to enforce conditions as to the form of light, heat and power or energy to be applied or used. I fancy there must be few householders who would not be found ready to acknowledge the usefulness of both gas and electricity and also who would not, if circumstances permitted, wish to have both systems installed. Moreover, both the gas and electrical undertakings are, for the most part, so efficiently conducted that they could not only well afford to abstain from striving Ibr " monopoly" rights, but would, I am convinced, be benefited by a continuance of the free and unfettered competition which has so far resulted in a profit to both undertakings. At the recent meeting of the Gas Light and Coke Company, the chairman, Sir David Milne Watson, gave a most interesting account of the company's progressive policy, and not the least interesting part of his speech was that in which he demon- strated the supreme excellence" of modern gas-lighting in the London thoroughfares.
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