BRIGHTER STREETS
Progress Ry M.EJ).
With 14,596 street lights in service compared with 13,714 a year ago, the light output was now 43.5 lumen, an increase of 37 per cent, said the general manager of the Municipal Electricity Department (Mr J. P. Shelley) in his annual report to the City Council. The increase was mainly the result of the reconstruction programme put into effect during the year. This involved the replacement of all 1000-lumen radial wave lamps with 3ft 3490-lumen fluorescent lanterns at a planned rate of 5000 a year. Up to the end of the financial year 2193 had been installed. The programme also provided for the replacement of the 6000-lumen series lamps in main streets with 11,000lumen colour-corrected mercury lamps in the same lanterns. Approximately 400 of these had already been replaced.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31091, 21 June 1966, Page 11
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