PAEROA’S BLACK-OUT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 8 July 1942, Page 5

PAEROA’S BLACK-OUT

■ (To the Editor.) . Sir,—We are a long-suffering people " in Paeroa but we «Irave the doubtful honour of the blackest black-out-in New Zealand and consequently . the most dismal conditions at night. However, things are not * quite per-: feet, a smoke screen, or something, has not ’been thought out fori moonlight nights—yet. A gentleman who recently return--ed from- Great Britain remarked that • he had not seen " a black-out like Paeroa since he .was in London. Cannot a little commonsense' be adopted here. Now that Paeroa is prepared for a total black-out, why cannot the streets and ■' shopping .

centre be made a lot brighter? The street lighting is farcical and we„, would be as well off if the street lights were put out altogether.. , - j

The retail businesses must be feeling the effect of the black-out regulations, and it is the business people who have to find a big pr,oportion of our rates. I am-sure I am voicing the general opinion of the people of Paeroa when I say that the authorities should set about brightening up the town again. Before IPaeroa is visit- . ed by enemy bombers we will have' plenty of warning about attacks on other towns in New Zealand. Thereare one or two more important places than Paeroa.—l am, ■ etc., ■'' \ ■CITIZEN. Paeroa, 7/7/42.