UGLY POWER POLES
TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. Sir. —It is encouraging to see by your report in “The Press” to-day that the Minister for State Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, and the Housing Director, Mr A. Tyndajl. and Public Works Department officials are putting up a fight against the erection of power poles in the streets of the State’s new housing areas. It is a pity the Government does not carry the whole scheme through itself by supplying power direct to the tenants and putting all the electric cables underground -as is done in nearly every progressive town the world over.
In* my opinion the initial cost of underground construction would.. be
more than repaid by the extra value put on to the State’s houses; and the first cost would be the last. In doing this now the Government could give a fine example of the contrast between the modern and the obsolete method of power reticulation and street lighting, and in this way would hasten the departure of our present methods of city uglification.—Yours, etc., R. B. OWEN. August 22, 1939.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 16
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