A Presentation Lamp-post

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 43, 9 May 1930, Page 22

A Presentation Lamp-post

O knows that Wellington has a presenta-| tion lamp-post? ‘Such a thing does exist, and stands at the Union Bank of Australia corner, and bears ‘the following inscription: "Presented by Samuel Brown, Mayor, in commemoration of the lighting of the city by electricity, 1888." . The actual lighting of the city by: the new power did not take place until 1889, being carried out by the Guicher Company, which used water power at first, and afterward ste It was not until. 1907 that the city acquired, the electric light and -power plant from the: Wellington ‘Light and Power Company, since when the plant has been wholly replaced. :Now the bulk of Wellington’s power, is: derived from the Government’s hydro-electric plant at Mangahao,