MORE STREET LIGHTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 973, 16 May 1930, Page 13

MORE STREET LIGHTS

RECOMMENDED BY CITY ENGINEER Extensive improvements to street lighting in the City area were urged in a report on street lighting extensions which came before the City Council last evening. The report, which was made by Mr. J. Tyler, City Engineer, stated that in the City area, exclusive of Avondale and Tamaki, there were some 88 streets unlighted, being mostly streets that had been dedicated since the electric street lighting was installed, and in the two districts named there were 181 streets formed and built on, and 76 not formed or built on which were unlighted. The engineer recommended that the work in the City be completed in the coming year and that the lighting of the formed streets in Tamaki and Avondale be spread over two years. That would allow of the unlighted streets in the City being completed and approximately half of the formed streets in Avondale and Tamaki being lighted. It would be necessary to provide £2,000 in addition to the amount that would be available by way of rebate during the current year to carry out the work.

The improvement of the lighting at street intersections should be effected, as also the replacement of some of the less effective lamps existing in some streets by efficient and less costly types.

ENGINEERS REPORT The adoption of the engineer’s report was recommended by the Works Committee, it being held that the extensions were imperative. It was pointed out that the extensions had no bearing on the question of improving the present lighting of the streets in the City which, it was anticipated, would eventually effect a saving in cos* and the lighting at street intersections, both of which were at present under consideration. In regard to a request from the TVaterview Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association that additional lights be installed in the Waterview section of the Avondale district, the engineer expressed the opinion that nothing should be done until the provision of lighting facilities in the whole district was considered. A similar suggestion was made by the engineer in connection with a request for better street lighting forwarded by the Tamaki Women’s Progress League. The report was adopted.