PROPOSED TOWN LIGHTING.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 February 1917, Page 3

PROPOSED TOWN LIGHTING.

TO THE EDITOR

SiR,' —Would you "be good enough to allow me space for a few remarks on the proposed town lighting scheme. In critically examining the various means of procuring the necessary lighting suitable for the town and suburbs, it is apparent that there is only one satisfactory scheme, and that ■ is electricity. Owing to labour troubles, and the A^Sumcertairity of sea carriage, coal gas ; - of the question. In many places the electirc light is superceding the gas, even where it has been established for years. Quite recently the Waihi G.M.C. installed an electric plant on the Waikato River, and the current is conducted to th mines on wires, a distance of over 40 miles. The Wairua Falls plant is supplyingWhangarei with all the light and power required, and perhaps Helensville could get all its requirements supplied from there also, •■ An alternative scheme would be to '-.:":- erect the necessary power house and " 'instal a water driven plant to be operated by the town water pressure, and with an auxiliary engine to be brought into use in fine weather when there would be danger ot running the water short for town purposes.—l am, etc., Pro Bono Publico.