TOWN LIGHTING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 April 1939, Page 5

TOWN LIGHTING

o TE PUKE'S DECISION (Special to Beacon) TE PUKE, Thursday. At a meeting of the Te Pake Bor_ f' ougli Council the electrical engineer recommended that the street light? he kept on until dawn in future r.nd a decision, to this effect was tnkon. It was stated that the recent burglar)' and lire showed how essential it was that the town should be well lighted at si} times. During the discussion Mr W. ifilmentioned that on a recent trip from Te Puke to Cisborne by night lie found only one centre with its lights burning. That was Taneatufi. and he said that the contrast with the gloom of other townships w?.s appreciated very much. ' I ' I PITCHFORKS REPLACE LINES ) Fish caused traffic hold-ups anJl large congregations of pedestrians ait the main Hutt bridge in Lower Hut!* the other day. In the shallow waters .beneath the bridge kahawai mid come in numbers that would malic even the most attractive tourist, seeking fishing brochure look modesf by comparison. It was a day of thfe slaughter of the innocents. was no skill attached to the catch.. ' Hordes of small boys and a leaven oft adults caught the kahawai witll pitchforks and -■* ith other instru j. ments equally far removed from thA sportsman's method of the hook andline. k