MUNICIPAL STATISTICS.

The following table contains the names of the municipalities operating lighting plants on June 30, 1914, the population of each, according to the census of 1910; the kind of supply and the year when the same was begun; the amount invested in the plant since the inception of the enterprise, including that raised by loans and by direct taxation; the total valuation of all estates in town for the year of the return, and the amount per thousand of valuation raised by taxation for all purposes.

The following towns have only distributing plants and buy

their electricity: -

Ashburnham from the Gardner Electric Light Company.
Belmont from the Cambridge Electric Light Company.

Boylston from the Connecticut River Transmission Company.
Georgetown from the Haverhill Electric Company.
Groton from the Ayer Electric Light Company.
Groveland from the Haverhill Electric Company.

Hingham from Weymouth Light and Power Company.

Holden from the Connecticut River Transmission Company.
Littleton from the Lowell Electric Light Corporation.

Middleton from Danvers Municipal Light Plant.

Norwood from the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston. Paxton from the Worcester Electric Light Company.

Princeton from the Gardner Electric Light Company.

Rowley from the Ipswich Municipal Light Plant.
Shrewsbury from the Marlborough Electric Company.

Sterling from the Connecticut River Transmission Company.
Templeton from the Gardner Electric Light Company.

Wellesley from the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston.
West Boylston from the Connecticut River Transmission Company.

In the following data the financial operations of all the municipal plants in the State are combined from the items relating to the manufacture and sale of gas and electricity in the returns of the last two years: