COTTAGERS' LIGHT
Sut,—One of the greatest evils in the present supply of light and power occurs in rural districts when the two commodities, gas and electricity, are under the control of one company. I farm in a Hampshire valley with an electric main Soo yards to the north, another I mile to the south, and the Southern Railway electrified line within 200 yards. This hamlet, containing five farms and roughly thirty dwellings, is supplied with gas. Any request for an estimate for electricity brings forth a statement showing that the cost of cabling would run into hundreds of pounds, and further stating that the supply " to the premises concerned " would not justify the cost and labour.
This, of course, evades the issue of a potential supply to the whole hamlet. The answer may be that the company concerned does not wish to supply electricity at the expense of gas revenue! How without com- pulsion from some higher authority are we to disentangle these purely commercial tangles?—Yours faithfully, G. T. Gwrrifett. Islington Farm, Binsted, Alton, Hants.
Postage on this issue : Inland and Overseas, id.
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