the double speaker is to be made ordinary it should be
20. the Company whose business necessitates a strong and
terrifying return current whether they from the Telephone Company whose
sen operation can do to appreciable harm to underground metallic
structures or other electrical undertakings.
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Your Petitioners would further humbly submit
To Your Excellency that as the Tramways Bill now stands your Petition-
ers have not had extended to them the same consideration which has
been shown to other local companies. By Section 20 subsection 8 the
Tramway Company is penalised should it interrupt the supply of water,
or electric light for a period exceeding twelve consecutive hours,
but provision is made for a penalty in the event of their inter-
rupting the Telephone Company's service and by Section 21 the Eastern
Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company Limited and the Great
Northern Telegraph Company Limited are protected both as to their
aerial and subterranean lines though no similar protection is af-
forded to your Petitioners.
In conclusion your Petitioners would re-
iterate to Your Excellency that as they have been established
in this Colony and have after a long and continuous struggle
succeeded in placing telephonic communication upon a satisfactory and
stable basis, it would be only reasonable to deal with them in the
same manner as the Telegraph Companies are dealt with by Section 21 of
the Proposed Ordinance, the Cable Companies working upon a system in