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CORRESPONDENCE

STREET LIGHTS. (To the Editor.)

I g-i rj —The nights of darkness in Wai- ? mea 'Road referred to by "J.T.AV.", were not confined to the street hghtI in"- alone, as there was hardly .a home !in Waimea street but wlier e the place (wa= i n semi-darkness, and those who had occasion to use gas stoves had not sufficient gas to supply a small ring and. a single burner at the same time, lhis i has occurred on several occasions lately. ' Quite a number of. complaints have "beau made iand some have been attended to, or at least had visits of the 'Council tj-as-iitters, who applied a pump i affair said to blow out the silt naph'thalene or other dust forced up the service pipe into the meter and private gas fittings (as admitted l>y the Gas Engineer's rejjfrrt) by the booster or lamplighting affair. The majority of houses -in Waimea street audi Road from | Gould's Corner up have, barelyi a supi ply for two burners at once, and it is useless for gas stoves, which are now much used at night, where passible. Another point: We arc- told- when the Council gas-fitter fails to remedy the trouble that it is the pipes 'that are "at fault. •■■ Possibly so; "but whose place is jit to hav e those pipes cleaned out? Audi iat who.«e cost should it bo done—the owner of the pipes or the owner of the booster that foz-ced the naphthalene or dirt into them, as.admitted by the Gas EnEineei-f The last. I think," viz., the Council's. Why I should be compelled to pay a big gas-fitting bill to clean out what Hie corporation's booster put into my pipes' I fail to see. Hence, I contend that the Council's have as much right to clear the eon-., sumers' pipes that liave been cho'«- I' up as they bave to clear', the service pipes from. tli« main to the meter.—l cam, etc.. | FOR MORE LIGHT, j

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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 16 May 1918, Page 4

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CORRESPONDENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 16 May 1918, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 16 May 1918, Page 4