ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15338, 23 July 1915, Page 4

ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

MEETING AT BROMLEY

George-Scott,- chairman , of the Heathcote County Council, addressed a small meeting cl' ratepayers at the BreezeV road Mission Hull Inst night, on the question of the proposed electric lighting scheme.of the Hoatheoto County Council. The speaker prefaced hLs remaVlis by stating the general advantages of electricity, and then outlined the Council's scheme, (t was proposed to raise a loan of £4600; to meet interest and sinking fund they would require £-07 per .annum. A rate of Id in the £ ■would raise £307 per annum, or £-W) more than would be required, but he was opposed to any rato being struck unless, it tms for street-lighting only; to rate for private lighting was manifestly unfair. At the present time the distinct bad' 24 lamps, which cost £90 per year, and save n total candlepower of 1200. They proposed under the new street-lighting scheme to put in 00 100 c.p. lamps, or a total candle-power of 0000. It was KHRfiestod that thelamps would ho alight for an average of four hours nor night all through the year. For this extra lighting an additional £00 per annum would bo charsed. making a total of £180 for the district. One at Gs per 1000 ft would be about equal to electric current nt. fid per unit, but he believed the rato for iius i" the district was 10s r>er. 1000 feet, .so ti'o li>bt. should si«o l>e c-heap<*-r fof hou>e ligliti-nf!. If the City Council carried out tile lishtinj; it would want the, district to carry out. its own reticulation, and the charge would then be o<l per unit. Under these circumstance's it would bo better for the county to curry out the work themselves, lie would i*ny there that whatever the county did they would see that it was possible to "hitch on" to tho city .system it' necessary. Mr'Seott gave figures, on the lines of his previous addres-s, to .show that iroiu the estimates prepared the total lvveuuo from private lighting and from street'lighting would preclude the necessity tor any heavy rating, and the only addition would be probably id n the £ in the general rato, or no more than the rate in li»lW. In any case, even if the elojti-if lighting proposals were injected. :\ Kitp increase would be uecesi'-arv. Ik icvvos quite obvious that the strst-t lighting of the district would liavo to he impioved in the near iuture. Tho rato whk-h it was ])repar*>d to chnr-T;o for current was (id per unit, iind In-' estimated that the monthly for lislstir-K an avprngo ■ house wouid Iw about IVs. In .answer to a question, .-)Ir - rr,tt stated tliat tht> jj'Hv ii farne'J. should be well on to completion by ,next winter.