ELECTRIC LIGHTING INSTALLATION.
WORKS NEAREST* COMPLETION. ] A SATISFACTORY TRIAL. On Friday afternoon for the first time the New Plymouth Borough olcctric lighting plant was given a, practical trial— a small one perhaps, hut sufficient to show that the work is almost on the verge of completion. ' Shortly after 2 o'clock Messrs Mestaycr (.Borough Consulting Engineer), Haes (manager for the Brush Com-j pany, contractors for the works), E. Harvey-Gibbon (Borough Engineer), Black (Borough Electrical Engineer), Feiui (Steuart and Feua, sub-contrac-tors to the Brush Company), and Cr. Brooking (Chairman of the Electric Lighting Committee) left tho Liiirdet street sub-station in cabs to visit the power-house at Mangorci. Shortly afterwards the switch was opened on to two circuits, and the first light affixed on the tower at the substation by Mr Letts, and New Ply. mouth's future street light for the first time glowed forth, vainly endeavouring to pierce the intensity of die " density " of the sunshine. Thence the lamp party traversed two circuits along which the current had been turned, affixing the globes on the street lighting fixtures as they were reached, until tho whole of the two circuits, comprising 128 lamps, were! turning the electric fluid to account. 1 So far as could be judged everything worked satisfactorily, but nothing official has been divulged. The work of fitting up the remainder of the lumps throughout the B.irough will now be vigorously prosecuted, and the whole, barring accidents, should be completed in a day or two. The workmen at the present time are busily engaged at the station fitting up the , large arc lamps prior to hanging them in Devon and other streets, to which they have been allotted. Judging from the forward condition df'tho 1 installation, it is not at all improbable 1 that tho light will be switched on throughout the central portion of the ■ Borough at least by Monday night, if ' not before,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8027, 13 January 1906, Page 2
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314ELECTRIC LIGHTING INSTALLATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8027, 13 January 1906, Page 2
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