NAMEPLATE LIGHTING
Suggestion Of Trial Illuminated street name signs as an alternative to yellow sodium vapour lamps to mark corners were suggested by the Municipal Electricity Department in a letter received by the Waimairi County Council last evening, The department’s general manager (Mr J. P. Shelley) said there was doubt as to whether the National Roads Board would approve of the sodium lamps at corners. He said the M.E.D. was having flourescent street-lanterns fitted with perspex covers besring street names in black made up for a trial. The cost would be about $6.50 a year instead of $13.80 for sodium lamps. Mr Shelley enclosed a newspaper cutting about , a petition from Lower Hutt resident to the Ministry of Transport objecting to the use of sodium vapour lamps on motorways and city roads. _ The county chairman (Mr D. B. Rich) said the council’s main concern was to reach agreement on sodium or met-cury-vapour lighting for the Main North Road. ! The council decided to ask that the illuminated street names be erected at different intersections on an experimental basis.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32019, 20 June 1969, Page 16
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