Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 1905.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42797, 26 October 1905, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 1905.

Ih'is above alb —to thin&oion self be true, A ad it must follow as the night the day Tiv.u cdnst not then be false to any man Shakespeare .

Our Borough Council last night deckled in favour of illuminating .our main street with incandescent lamps. The main objection raised to the use of arc lamps was that they had been tried in Wellington and discarded as “ unsuited for a windy situation.” This has been by no means the experience of municipal bodies at numerous British watering-places, where miles of esplanadei a e lighted by hundreds of arc lamps exposed to at least as heavy gales as are ever experienced in Te Aroha. Yet these lamps are a success: that is, when a suitable pattern is chosen and properly fixed. The above objection, coupled with the statement that an additional man would be required to attend to arc lamps, turned several of the councillors, two of whom admitted that they were in favour of arc lights. So many of the general public are in favour of arc lights that the decision will probably not meet with general approval. It certainly would net pay to keep a man to attend to five lamps every other day, but some other arrangemeat could no doubt be arrived at, for there will be several' electricians residing in the town when the system is completed. We understand that an arc light re quires per candle power, considerably less current than is required for an incandescent lamp, so that an appreciable saving would be affected in this way, and would obviate the necessity f r replacing as suggested at the meeting last night, the 64 c.p. incandescent with 32 or 16 c.p. lamps in case of additional current being required by consumers. When the number of lamps supplied with current reaches thepiiaximum, every small amount of current saved is a gain, as is known too well by those who have used electiic light supplied by an over-taxed plant, the result being a considerable diminution in the brilliancy of all lights on the system. The first I instalment of interest on the Electric Light Loan becomes due in January; this should be paid out of the Loan, but as the whole £4OOO has been expended in installation, the money will have to be raised by other means.