"LET THERE BE LIGHT."

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 350, 5 April 1911, Page 5

"LET THERE BE LIGHT."

To the Editor. Sir, —And the Lord said "Let there be light!" but in Te Kuiti there is very little as far as the streets are concerned. Take an ordinary evening here, when we are not favoured with moonshine, and those compelled to wander around resmble a mighty parade of fire-flies, so recurrent is the lantern. But at two a.m. when the main trains shake hands here and discharge the many casuals and wouldbe dwellers in our town and district, they feel they have entered the Vale of Chaotic Darkness. Would it not be advisable for the Council, knowing their inability to cope at present with a permanent lighting scheme, to hoist a few of these "LUX" lights in a few places and enable pedestrians to seek their homes with some degree of safety. Lamps could be placed in positions of centrality all of which excepting one opposite the station could be extinguished at midnight or even eleven o'clock. The cost of such an installation would be very trifling, and even if a dead loss, would tide a rising township over a muddy winter, too well remembered by those of us who have been here a few years. Thanking you in anticipation,— I am, etc., ANTI-DARKNESS.