LONGBURN LIGHTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 139, 14 May 1941, Page 8

LONGBURN LIGHTS.

RATEPAYERS’ PROTEST. The Longburn Progressive Association placed before the Kairanga County Council, at its meeting yesterday, a petition signed by 57 ratepayers protesting against the absence of street lights in the Longburn township. It was felt, said the accompanying letter, that this matter should be gone into at once and the lights reinstalled at the earliest possible date, the numbers and positions of these lights to be left to the engineer and members of the association, it was the footways and not the roadway which it was desired illuminated, which eliminated (the letter said) any further attempts to place the responsibility oti tlie Highways Board. No doubt the council would put before the association the excuse of a shortage of electricity, but the case was one of public safety. The association had appealed to Hon. J. G. Cobbc to try to fathom the deadlock which existed between the council and the Highways Board in this matter and felt convinced on reading the reply received by Mr Cobbe from the board that the lighting and the maintenance of such lights in Longburn was the sole responsibility of the council. Tt was the curtailment of street lighting in Longburn which had united the icsiuents to form the association.

The engineer (Mr L. C. Pickering) said the council would be willing to provide two lights if the Main Highways Board would illuminate the ramp. On the motion of G'r N. P. Nielsen it was decided that the council provide at least two lamps for the township and that the Public Works Department be asked to place a light at both ends qf the ramp, the engineer to consult with the Progressive Association about the location of the council’s lights.