RAILWAY DWELLINGS
ELECTRIC LIGHTING. WELLINGTON, May 13. Mr G. H. Mackley, General Manager of Railways, stated to-day on behalf of the Government Railways Board, that the Board had decided, with a view to improving the amenities of home life in more isolated railway communities, to install electric lighting in all those railway dwellings situated in locations reasonably close to a source of power supply. “Approximately 560 houses are affected,’’ said Mr Mackley, “and the work will be put in hand as quickly as possible. Contracts will, wherever possible. bo let for this work in the localities concerned.”
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Grey River Argus, 14 May 1935, Page 6
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