FIFTY YEARS AGO.
AUCKLAND STREET LIGHTING ,J# COMPLAINTS q? INADEQUACY (From the Heeau> <.{ July IS. 1869.) In these long -winter nights there Is a general complaint of the unsatisfactory manner in -which the City of Auckland is lighted. If wo compare Auckland in this respect with the only other city in the colony, which is of similar -wealth and extent, and lighted -with gas, namely, Dunedin, we shall find how remarkable a difference there is. In all Auckland there are but 50 public lamps—in Dunedin there are 225. I n Auckland the price of gas consumed by the public lamps amounts to £356, in Dunedin to £4000. In our principal thoroughfare, Queen»Street, there are but six public lamps from the'Vharf up to the junction of Grey and Wakefield Streets; ( while at Parnell, though the company's pipes are laid as far as the Alexandra Hotel, not a single public lamp is to bo found-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17213, 15 July 1919, Page 11
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