Returns from various towns as to the price of gas The survey questions by Mr Beale are: how many public lamps are paid for, at what rate and how many hours are they lighted? The rate per 1000 cubic feet to private consumers? The price of coal used? If supplied by a company for what term of years? If any competing company? The template for these questions is included with this material. Responses received from Ashton under Lyne, Brighton, Canterbury, Chester, Dover, Great Yarmouth, Huddersfield, Ipswich, Northampton, Oxford, Plymouth, Stroud, Wakefield, Worcester, York. Feb 1865