MORE LIGHT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 100, 18 August 1944, Page 5

MORE LIGHT

WHAKATANE BY NIGHT

UNFAIRNESS OF RESTRICTIONS

What prospects have we of lighting our back streets/' asked the Deputy Mayor (Cr S. S. Shapley) at the meeting of the Whakatane Borough Council last Monday evening, of the Electrical Engineer. "None whatever/' replied Mr Lysaght, who went on to say that the town was using its full quota already and though the position might ease by the end of the month he could hold out little, prospect of the side-streets being lighted. "This matter goes much further than that " said Cr Armstrong who ' pointed, out that unless something was done to secure, for the town a larger quota, there was going to be trouble. He mentioned the new hospital block, and the State houses which were going up, all of which would be requiring power and light. There was no doubt, but that the town was badly lit while others were a blaze; of light. Whakatane was apparently on an unfair basis by comparison, and he did not consider it right when so many military camps and institutions were being closed. He thereupon moved that the Council write again asking for a greater allocation of and that Mr W. Sullivan. M.P., be asked to take the matter up. This course was agreed to.