STREET LIGHTING.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2784, 1 May 1911, Page 2

STREET LIGHTING.

[To the Editor.]

Sir—Can you inform your readers who is responsible for the lighting of the streets in our township ? lam informed that the County Council pays a fixed sum per annum for the maintenance, lighting, and cleaning of the street lamps, but as no one appears to exercise any supervision over it, the lighting is neglected, and ' a state of affairs exists that would not be tolerated in a back blocks settlement lit up by oil lamps. Thursday night last was wet, dark, and stormy, a night when sufficient lighting was urgently needed. On that evening the lamp at Crosby's had a broken mantle and shed a dim religious halo round the base of the lamp post, but the light was useless as a street lamp. The lamp at the Wesleyan Church was worse, and did not even li^ht the footpath at the base of the lamp post. The light at the Criterion could not shine half way across the road ; the one opposite Dr Smith's late residence was broken and the gas flaring up over the top. The one at the Catholic Church was out, the one at the post office broken, and the one at the drill shed was out. This is a matter that the local Chamber ot Commerce might look into with advantage to the residents, as Thursday night was only a sample ot what occurs on other nights, and it would be interesting to the ratepayers to know what their money is being

spent on. —1 am, etc.,

Ratepayer,