ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 384, 5 August 1911, Page 5

ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

The To :n Clerk ot" Te Aroha, in a letter to Mr W. M. Forsyth, states that he can light a five-roomed house briliantly with electric light for £2 a year. Ratepayers are satisfied with the light and the demand is increasing. Provided you have water power easily available, by all means adopt the electric lighting soke v.e.'' The scheme in Te Aroha cost £iboo.

Revenue from consumers amounts to £IO3B, street lighting is free but worth £230, and the expenditure for salaries and extensions paid fur out of income, is about £-500. Interest and sinking fund is fully provided for, and there is a net profit of £331 after meeting ail charges. The Borough Engineer of Patea, writes to Mr David -J. Young that they have 120 private consumers and 45 public lights. Current is sold at lOd per unit up to 20 units consumed, and sjd per unit net above that quantity. During the last six years they had made a profit of over £IOOO, had reduced the rates 6d in the pound, and had taken £SO oft the street lighting. The installaion cost £2500. There were six miles of pole line. The source of supply at Patea is water power.