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Mr. Andrews — Then, if you told the meeting at what horse- 

 power you run ? 



Mr. Perry — We are able to deliver 100 electrical horse- 

 power for the 24 hours. 



The President — I wish to ask Mr. Perry what is the horse- 

 power actually delivered in Gal way per 6 hours ? 



Mr. Perky — ^We were delivering 26 horse-power the other 

 night when I was there. It would run between 10 and 30. 



Mr. Andrews — One more question: Supposing the Corpora- 

 tion were to offer Mr. Perry a contract for supplying 10,000 

 lights, would he be willing to bind himself to supply that 

 light at the price he mentions — viz., 3d. per Board of Trade 

 unit delivered at the station ? He says he could produce it at 

 2^d. provided he was contesting against gas at 2s. 9d. 



Mr. Perry — I am prepared to make this offer to the Belfast 

 Corporation. I will prepare figures for them, and if these 

 figures are not carried out I shall not expect to be paid for 

 them, but if they are carried out I will be paid. 



The President — You mean that you consider the thing 

 could be sold at 3d. per unit ? 



Mr. Perry — I do decidedly, on the assumption that there is 

 a sufficient number of consumers on the mains. 



Mr. Andrews — That certainly would be a very great boon 

 to the consumers of Belfast. I have no doubt that if Mr. Perry 

 can produce the electric light at anything near that price 

 there will be an enormous demand for it. 



Mr. Stewart — I would desire in the first place to thank you 

 for your kindly references to my recent work as a journalist. 

 I have seen a great many of the electric generating stations in 

 Great Britain, and the process of manufacture of a number of 

 the dynamos to which Mr. Greenhill has referred, and I must 

 say that he has given a lucid description of them. Upon this 

 important question of cost, which has given rise to so interesting 

 a debate, I may mention that in Bradford I learned that for 

 a time the electric lighting station had been supplying light 

 absolutely free ; but it turned out that this was the fault of the 



