ECONOMY IN LIGHT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 74, 27 July 1915, Page 6

ECONOMY IN LIGHT.

{To Tm? Bdttoh Stratford Post.] Sir—Kindly allow me space for a few remarks; I see by the rates notice that rates are up (mine are over 20'per cent). 1 think that the Council should economise a little. It took a step that way when it turned out• lights at T o’clock. Might i snggest that it falls ; in‘frith’ older towns and more experienced Councils, and turn lights 1 out on moonlight nights also. Tf we take, say Auckland, for example, lights are out at 12 o’clock every night, and if parsons and maidens wish to parade after that they do it in the 1 -dark. Tramps are also not lighted several nights before full- moon •and after 1 full moon they are turned out as soon as the'moon rises. 8o the moon light saves about 2o per cent of the gas-(here it would be electricity). This saving ' would reduce the rates a little, or it might be given to the war fund, better than waste it trying to disgrace the moon, and never ■mind what parsons say, they don’t pay the rates.—l am, etc.,

RATKPAVFR Stratford. 26th July, 1915.