ELECTRICITY FOR STREET LIGHTING.

Shannon News, 24 August 1923, Page 3

ELECTRICITY FOR STREET LIGHTING.

COST TO BOROUGHS. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Horowhenua Power Board,. .the following recommendations by the Board’s Engineer, Mr T. Overton, were submitted in his report:— Borough Street Lighting: This subject was discussed at last committee meeting. Since then I have gone further into the matter and now recommend :

(a) That agreements be made for street lighting with councils concerned in our district for a period, of at least seven years. , (b). That the price per lamp, including installation, electricity, and maintenance, shall be. £3 15s per lamp for -the first- hundred Lamps, thereafter £3 10s per lamp. net. (c) That ten per cent of the total number of lamps supplied to any town xnay be increased to 150 candle power providing that such totally increased candle power shall average within 100 candle power per point installed.

(d) That the hours of use shall he from sunset to midnight, special arrangements being excepted. The Engineer -explained that this price was less than that originally estimated, this, being due to the fact that more, satisfactory -arrangements lor materials had been made than Was anticipated. The Power Board would put in and maintain the lights at the price quoted, which was approximately what other Power Boards were charging. If the boroughs concerned wished to keep the lights going after midnight for any occasion such as_a ball this could be arranged for at a very small cost.

Mr A. Ross, asked If it were necessary to have som lamps going all night in main streets. The chairman, Mr D. W. Matheson, considered that in a main street especially where lamp-posts were in the middle of the roadway, it Was essentional that lamps should be kept lit. Mr Ross -asked if it would not be advisable to give, boroughs the option of either an all-night, or part-night service, -and in the case of their deciding on the former, making a small extra charge—say 2/6 per lamp per year. The Engineer said he -had spoken with some of the more prominent men in the- boroughs concerned, and the general opinion seemed to be that a service to midnight was sufficient. Mr Ross: It might not be absolutely ■ necessary but it might be a good' thing all the same. Mir A. Seifert, asked if it would be possible to, keep the lamps going for the extra- hours from midnight to dawn about, 1400 hours, for 2/6 per lamp. „ , The, Engineer said the life of a. lamp such a-s would be used was reckoned at 1000 hours, and the cost was 3/4. The Board would lose money, but he considered that they should do all they could -to meet- the- requirements of the boroughs in this respect. Mr Seifert: Then if we give the boroughs an ail night service for £3 17s 6d per lamp, it is worse for the Board than if we charge £3 15s till midnight. We should make a charge of 5s extra for an all-night service. Mr Brown asked if in eases where the charge was to be £3 15s per lamp, it would not be possible to reduce the price by 2s 6d, with an extra 5s for mi all-night service. Other members supported this and Mr \ Ross then moved the following resolution, which Mr Gunning seconded: “That the Engineer’s report be adopted except that street lighting clause B, shall read “price per lamp, including installation, electricity and maintenance, shall be £3 12s. 6d per lamp for the first- 100 lamps and theieafter £3 10s per lamp net, with an extra charge of 5s per Lamp for an all-night service to daylight. ’ This was -put, to the meeting and carried unanimously.