Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 296, 24 April 1894, Page 2

Correspondence.

5 ,v" '^& ~ LA|T_ttTHE BOBOUGH. TO THE K-frfOK OF THK STAK Sir, — In your issue of the 19th instant, you invite correspondence re the lighting of the Borough of Feilding. As no one has yet thrown any light on the subject, I am most happy to start the ball, and hope that abler pens than mine will keep the ball rolling until our City Fathers make the lighting of this important town an accomplished fact. lam only a new arrival in this district. : Therefore, some may say I have no right to meddle with the affairs of this town. Well, I cannot see it in that light. I may add that we are commanded not to " hide our light under a bushel," and I may add, on my own authority, especially when your town is in such need of light. Some people make light of everything, especially if the accomplishment of good necessitated the striking of a rate, which would compel them to part with a few bawi bees. Mow to tbe point. In the first place it is our duty to make the district we live in as pleasant as possible. All will admit tbat light is more pleasant than darkness. It is more convenient to travel about in light than in darkness. Some may say they do not go out after dark and, therefore, do not see the need of lighting ; they, or someone else, may have to turn out some night in search of a doctor. Not very pleasant to have to grope in the dark when the life of a loved one depends upon the prompt action of a medical man. Business, or other matters, may require some of us to be out after dark, and it is possible that one of us may fall over an obstruction and break or sprain a limb ; or, perhaps Worse, frighten twelve months' growth out of us; or we may drop a threepenny piece and, through the want of light, lose the run of it ; or we may lose some of our little ones, and be searching for them everywhere, passing them, close by every few minutes, and yet unable in tbe dark to find them. Young men and women may be fumbling about in the dark, searching for one another, and eventually pick up wrong mates, and only find out their mistake when they behold each other's blushing faces at the young lady's door lamp, when they are saying and acting tbe lovers' good-bye ; or husbands and wives may be separated through the want of a little light. Lighting the town means increased prosperity to commerce, an increased town population, an increase in the spending power of all connected with the building trade, irom the logger to the sawmiller, the timber dresser, waggoner, architect, builder, painter, plumber, blacksmith and bricklayer ; and, indirectly, scores of others. Light is conducive to Godliness, health, happiness, cleanliness, comfort, virtue, wisdom, and wealth, and darkness is conducive to the ofpjsites. I therefore maintain that our City Fathers will be wanting in their duty if they do not speedily devise ways and means of lighting this township. Hoping tbat abler pens will urge the matter to a successful issue, I am, etc,, Periculum in Mora. Feilding, April 23rd, 1894.