CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 956, 29 June 1881, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

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WATER AND LIGHT.

TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —Your beautiful town being, as you are most likely aware, pretty well stocked with ingenious and enterprising men, I have no hesitation in laying before them, through your columns, the following simple and inexpensive plan for lighting and watering the streets ; it is this :—Sink an artesian well, and providing the flow of water is sufficiently strong, let it turn a turbine, which again will give any required motion to an electric battery, and which battery will produce a current of any strength necessary for producing a light of any given power, and any required quantity. Thus, having made a practical use of the first force of your flow of water, let it run off into pipes laid in the usual manner to any part of the town. By the time your Gas Company is got into working order (at the rate at which our oil and other valuable products are turned to account, will be well, say, some time yet), electricity will be the lighting medium of every other town, that wants any light at all after sun-down, all the world over ; and we, of Poverty Bay, in spite of the known capacity of our local talent, will be as usual a good way behind the age. Water we must have ; and light we can’t well do without. Therefore, why not try the experiment as per above receipt, by means of a Company ? O. L. W. Bousfield.