AND THERE WAS NUT LIGHT.

Northern Advocate, 27 June 1910, Page 2

AND THERE WAS NUT LIGHT.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Some little time since an annoying mishap befel a local gentleman on his way home from a Sunday evening service in consequence of the Borough Council's callous neglect to light the principal thoroughfare of the borough properly, and the representations of the "Advocate" bore immediate fruit by a dangerous place being railed. But this did not improve the lighting of -he borough, which is, after all, what is wanted. Last night I was simil arly made an unwilling victim of the gross negligence to give reasonable light to burgesses; twisting one of my ankles badly in making a mis-step off the kerbing to avoid collision with some other people. Something more serious, such as a broken leg, might easily have been my lot, and though I do not intend to come at the Borough Council with a suit for damages, I believe that I

should be within legal right in doing so. Can't you induce the Council to hustle a bit in this matter ? The ratepayers are pretty well saddled, but they would gladly submit to another special rate of i-iooth of a penny in the £ to meet the little cost necessary to put the lighting in a reasonably decent state. We don't appear to have got much further in Whangarei than the period when "darkness covered the face of the earth." —I am etc.,

Neglect's Victim.