FIRES AND ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12129, 27 February 1905, Page 8

FIRES AND ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES.

•■, TO 'THE KOITOB ■OV Tar, '"' " yil^^B Sir,—Your'columns late repeated referenem.to. fJ5 es; in ■■Wellington—which have ed to the fusing of electric and I find that- these fires duced a deep impression; on ™* n ? !&■,_____■ who have been 'considering the ot installing electric only fair to point out, in the m of this illummsnt of the certain well reepgnised rules tho safe installation of the light, and that if these rules folly carried out,- an practically impossible. No on< acquainted. with the standard of th- electrical wor- in care to deny that these.fire* n 2 > -2_-_9B_____! had an electrical origin; but u^fl|l^H

tMßembered that the charges made for Strical wiring work in Wellington are ■mneh lower than in England, and per-■fc-pj-half what they are in Canterbury, it would seem that either material or i-workmanship must be defective. ■'. ,'■.',• It will hardly require pointing out that if owners of nouses insisted on having an installation of gas or aoety- * iehe put in at half the cost of good work, something more disastrous than a ■Ire would very soon occur. In fact, ■■fir* insurance companies—who may be -admitted to be good judges—assert that they consider the electric light, when S" roperly installed, the safest of all luminants. y I believe there is a very general in-' ter-st in this subject, and as you have found room to relate some of the supposed dangers of the electrio light, and nothing has yet appeared on the other side, I »m venturing to ask a little of your space for the above remarks.— . Yenw, etc., A. R. CRADDOCK. . IBS Hereford street.