STREET LIGHTS TO BE CUT OUT

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6538, 21 February 1928, Page 6

STREET LIGHTS TO BE CUT OUT

CR. J. HODGENS VOICES A PROTEST. The Palmerston North Borough Council" last evening approved of the suggestion by the Lighting Committee that, with the exception of the allnight lights in the Square, there shall be no street lights until there is an improvement in the supply from Mangahao. Councillor M. A. Eliott reported that during the past week, the Palmerston North plant had fed back into the system 6900 units more than it had taken out. He desired that fact to be known as there had been some unfair remarks made about what Palmerston North was doing. Councillor J. Hodgens voiced a protest that the Council should have to curtail the street lights. Someone on the Power Board had made a comparison between Palmerston North and a number of villages, but Palmerston North was fast approaching the city stage, and in Wellington there had been no curtailment of the street lights. That lighting he considered a necessity and not a luxury and instanced a recent burglary which had been attributed to the darkness subsequent to the switching off of the street lights. Such curtailment in a town which owned its own plant should not be necessary.