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IMPROVED LIGHTING

iwmt SDRXAL'-LAST EVENING.

Thanks to certain economies haying been effected, together with the arrival of a limited supply of better-class coal, and the assistance of Additional power from .two of the old Syndicate boilers (on the Harris Street side of the lighting power-house), the electric hght was quite normal last evening Tins distinct change for the, better was welcomed bv all the business neople of the city, to 'whom Friday is known as tlio late night." The experience of shopkeepers during' the past, ten days or so hasVen that the dimming of the lights is distinctly detrimental to business. The lowering of the power, 100, has .had a. serious effect on the-small motors used for n variety of purposes, such as driving sewing machines or dental apparatus. Indeed, several dentists have had to put their patients off owing to the power being insufficient to drive the drillers after:4 p.m. ' ,'..'-■ . Another pair of the old boilers is Ving overhauled at present with, the object of being put into ■•- commission wrnin (after some ten years), and it is hoped, with such assistance and a continuance of the supply of good quality "coal, to struggle through the .Tune;peafcload period without any marked inconvenience to the public.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19200522.2.27

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 6

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IMPROVED LIGHTING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 6

IMPROVED LIGHTING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 6

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