POWER LINES
DISFIGUREMENT OF STREETS
REMOVAL UNDERGROUND URGED
“Will this society make an effort to get as many as possible of its power and telephone lines off the streets?” was a question put to the Masterton Beautifying Society last night by Mr F. C. Daniell, who- added that he had recently become a member of the Wairarapa Power Board, but he had a somewhat lone-handed fight in respect to the disfigurement caused by power lines. The time was not very far distant, he said, when there would have to be some alteration in the power lines in Masterton, and if the society put its weight behind a proposal to place them underground or in some other place where they would not be so unsightly as they were now it would be very helpful. “I suggest that as a thing the society could take up,” observed Mr Daniell. Mr L. Robinson stated that the society had planted street trees, and then destroyed them by pruning, on account of overhead wires. It was costing anything from £7O to £BO a year to prune the .trees. It would be the best move the society could make, he said, if it were possible to do something in the direction of getting the overhead wires removed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1938, Page 7
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211POWER LINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1938, Page 7
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