NEON SIGN USERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 4

NEON SIGN USERS

NEGOTIATIONS WITH POWER BOARD. REQUEST FOR FORTY HOUR SERVICE. A meeting of Wairarapa Neon sign users was. held in Masterton yesterday. Masterton. Carterton and Greytown users were represented. Mr J. H. Cunningham presided. A report was received on the meeting held by the committee with the special committee set up by the Wairarapa Power Board. It was decided to meet the requirements of the board for a limited service until the board’s meeting on September 18. The action of the committee in requesting a 40 hours per week service in lieu of the 24 hours per week offered. by the board was unanimously endorsed. In anticipation of the extra hour. 1 - which it was’ hoped would be grantee by the board at. its next meeting it wa.stated that all overhead sign users (ii respect to signs rented by picture theatres and eating houses, etc.), hac agreed to a six day service from 4.3 C p.m. to 11 p.m. and under verandah (Masterton only) sign users from It a.m. to 5 p.m. from Mondays to Thursdays and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays. The Carterton and Greytown user? preferred the afternoon and evening service and it was decided to leave arrangements for those towns in the hands of Messrs G. Hughan and G Bouzaid. Until the board meets it has beer decided to continue the skeleton service, allowing lighting from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. from Mondays to Thursdays and from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays for under verandah signs. Ovethead signs would continue to be used from / to 11 p.m. from Mondays to Saturdays.