LAKE COLERIDGE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20038, 20 September 1930, Page 17

LAKE COLERIDGE.

ISD!T08 07 THE PMBfl announced this morning i d lighting would be put b Now, Sir, it seems to ceit consideration has not 0 this matter. Whilst it t to cat out the lighting nights it is highly dangerthe streets in total darkpresent. Tfye social amenirge city demand that our » and women should go out Be for educational facilities y availably in the evening, 3es, musical societies, and j purposes, where relief is ianned. These social oblilot be discarded < like a , fortunately for the oom--1 as a consequence our > and women folk have to l. Jj'or some time we have » a fairly lighted city, and inly plunged into utter to say the least, distract i this the brilliant momen- ' motor headlights, and we t>ion that is unbearable. 1 would suggest that the be lit between 8 and 10 night. Perhaps half .the be removed, thus giving mal lighting. It is doubtjrovision would bring the hours nearer 1 , as it was 1 when the Waimakariri advocated that the City i lifting free as the power e off. another thing that the darkness is. the fact tolders are economising, few hall lights or bright If be out of place to point 8«r there is from the untat congregate in Christi tbif« -time,' in preparation >us A ind P. Shows and ek. 1 rould further sugars of getting some street t (picture shows and dance sloee one hour easier, and i oat. Again let me urge ;ht be given in our streets, qeans employing some of yed to patrol the streets ne lamps. It is not right r young people to the danaovine traffic and nndesir- > the face of an incompetr orks Department, who are rnblic will put up with all onvenience to save them g proper provisions for > their obligations to the J. W. ROBERTS. 19th, 1930. # n>m>B OF THK passu, le present Lake Coleridge r people blame the Public rtment or the Lake ColeA good deal of criticism or way, much of it rather some of it quite unfair. 9 seems to be sheei' hard think they deserve credit they have worked against lad issued warnings at the i shortage they would only 1' a panic and got little t, especially if heavy rain Followed the - warnings. It rk to keep the plant going i daily demand, trusting to reather. They were ■ not Set a six months' or a two htL People ask .why they : the Wilberforce from its >ss the bed of the Harper do they realise what that work and maintenance, flood time 1 One adviser lating the mountains, when It is the weather that is at to see what is to be gained lake with loose shingle or r we will soon be using it Understand one statement lity Councillor who seemed inngly, that we would have right through the summer

and into the winter. Where did he get his figures for the coming rainfall? The position to-day is that we have passed through one extreme and are due to enter another, when the nor'-wester is likely to give a good account of itself, and it seems incredible that it can't make up that ten-foot drop in better time. I would like to ask about that 1670 ft level. How many feet more can the lake be raised from the Harper River, before they are level! I do not wish to make the present position seem less serious than it is, and I believe everyone should do his utmost to help, and most are doing so, but, according to yo'ur paper, some are not. For instance, s6me local bodies forget to take off their minimum ?harge for electricity. They deal out advice and alarms, but to charge the user for his sacrifices is not much encouragement.—Yours; etc., T.A.S. September 19th, 1930.