LIGHTING OF STREETS
Answer To Criticism
The average amount of light in the streets in the Christchurch city area has been increased to more than two and one-third times what it was 15 years ago, said the chairman "of the electricity committee of the Municipal Electricity Department (Mr W. E. Olds). Mr Olds said that recently some publicity was given to a statement that street lighting in Christchurch was worse now than it was 15 years ago.
“The total candlepower of street lighting in city streets in 1948 was 917,000. Today the total in these same streets (not including new streets or streets where no lighting was provided in 1948) is 2,164,928,” he said. This showed the average amount of light in city streets in the city area had been increased to more than two and one-third times what it had been 15 years ago.
The figure given, said Mr Olds, was a total over the whole city area and “there are streets which have not had their lighting increased in this period, and quite a number which are due for attention shortly.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30233, 11 September 1963, Page 17
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