The Waipukurau Press. Friday, March 9, 1906. TOWN LIGHTING.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 24, 9 March 1906, Page 2

The Waipukurau Press. Friday, March 9, 1906. TOWN LIGHTING.

The Town Board seems inclined to seriously consider the question of street lighting, and at its last meeting discussed the matter at some length. Members were apparently unanimous that steps should be taken immediately to secure the better lighting of the town; and unquestionably if we are to keep pace with the times the Board and ratepayers will have to sanction the installation of an adequate lighting system. The style of light to be adopted will no doubt receive the fullest consideration of the Board, a id no doubt the best for the money will be duly selected. There are a number of patent lights on the market, more or less valuable and suitable, and each claiming to have distinctive merit over the other. The questions of cost, aitention and brilliancy are all-important. It is not the right of any private individual to praise one maker’s invention as against another, but when a body representing the ratepayers have to consider the question it is its plain duty to endeavor to get the best value by investigation as test. To laymen who have studied the lighting problem the Kitson system certainly recommends itself very strongly, both in respect of cost and as an illuminant. Naturally the agents claim that it is unapproachable by any other make; investigation doubtless would prove or disprove their claim. The sum quoted for the erection of nine lamps seems to be pretty large, but in the face of quality it might turn out to be the cheapest in the long run. Wrought iron lampposts on a concrete foundation will last a very long time, and the other parts of the apparatus are said to need no replacing for a number of years. The Board has decided to make enquiry into this and other systems, and probably ere long will be able to make a definite recommendation to the ratepayers.