OUR CITY OF POSTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2211, 25 July 1914, Page 6

OUR CITY OF POSTS

EEFOB-M IN PROGRESS. Wellington is a post-ridden cityposts for telegraph wires, posts for the ,electric light wires, tramway posts, and verandah posts in greater, number and variety than;any. other 'city in.Australasia;-. This fact, struck the town-plan-ncrs,:Messre. W: R. Davidge'and C. C. .Reade so forcibly that : photographs of sonio of the city street junctions, were taken and;transformed into views used during the lectures as illustrations of what t<r_ avoids Not only is there a multiplicity of;posts, but one.can at a' glaiico along a street line perceive that .little . attempt: , is made.. to'. set them plumb—they lean in all directions. Some improvement in this direction is being made. The City Council intends to pass a by-law insisting on postless verandahs in the No. 1 building . dis.trict, and the Post and Telegraph Department ,is also doing comething to rectify post evils. Slowly but gradually the task of burying the telephone cables has proceeded, until now tho dense web of_ wires that used to,.be suspended in in the city have been reduced practically to those that are serving immediate localities. It is still necessary to have, posts for the distribution of wires -from the cables on the score of cost. If the telephone wire to every building were buried in a conduit pipe right up to tho building the cost would be from 30 to 40 per cent, more iii annual charges to every subscriber. Tho cables .are now- being led to tubular , steel pipes, from 16ft. to 30ft. in height, according to the load to bo carried, and ranging from 6 inches to ten inches in diameter at the base. These posts or poles have ,a slight, graceful appearance, and are au'immense improvement on the old wooden posts. Tho new distributing posts have been erected along Wellington' Terrace, Upper Willis Street, and' in other parts or the city.