LIGHT WANTED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 64, 17 March 1910, Page 3

LIGHT WANTED.

A JOIINSONVILLE DEPUTATION. The ic-identb of Johnsouville are dem'ioii* of getting electiic light for the illumination of the townnhip, and with that view a deputation from the suburb waited on the Mayor of Wellington yesterday, to ask that the City Council i-hould extend it« lighting mains to Johnsonville. The deputation, which consisted of Mcmi-h J. Rod, F. T. Moore, and R. Bould, was introduced by Councillor J. P. Luke. Alternative proposals were put before the Mayor. The fiiet was that the City Council should awry out the rcti< illation and piovidf> for forty Hlreet lamps within a ladiou* of forty chains from the John<oiivjUe Post Office, ff thi« were pfTected, the boaid would agree to pay 5 per tent, pei annum on ihe cjipitiil ontlny on the uoik and 7d per unit for dirretil. The alteinative wair that the board .should guarantee to return the round! 25 per cent, on the capital expended on the installation. The pptiinntwl tost ot" the works w.ts tinted to be £1200. Jt wat. pointed out that the Wellington Gas Company was nrenaipd to treat with the district for the lighting of the town, and proposals had been received from a syndicate for fin acetylene gae inMtallation. The Mayor afked the deputation to submit the proposals in writing. They could then be considered by the Finance Committee to-morrow, ana comt before the full council for. diacuiuon*