STREET LIGHTING SCHEME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18345, 10 March 1923, Page 10

STREET LIGHTING SCHEME.

FIVE YEARS' PROGRAMME. IMPROVED CONDITIONS. The street lighting proposals adopted by the City Council on Thursday evening were stated by the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, yesterday to represent the most important decision in this connection yet made by the council They would, he said, revolutionise the character of the lighting throughout the entire city. The position at present, the Mayor said, was most unsatisfactory, and Auckland was notoriously badly lighted. This had long been recognised by the council, which, however, had been unable any earlier to meet the many representations and requests from all over the city for improved conditions. The scheme now definitely adopted represented a programme covering the city and all the tramway routes within its boundaries. The Auckland Electric Power Board would carry out the work to the council's specifications and plan of development, and there appeared to be no reason, so far as the council could see, to delay an immediate commencement with the scheme. Its completion would occupy five years. The decision of the council to accept the Power Board's offer for street lighting had been conveyed to the latter, with a request for a speeding up of the work in accordance with tKe specifications of the Works Committee, adopted by the council. The result would be that toward the end of this year, and thereafter for successive years, there would be apparent a gradual, but nevertheless striking, improvement in the lighting conditions. v The lights to be installed _by the Power Board, said Mr. Gunson, would be of a new type, giving greatly improved results. He was sure the citizens, would be much pleased with them when they had been installed. He mentioned that the council had also approved the principle of flood-liorhting for the parka. Two of these flood-lights had already been placed in Albert Park, and had created much improved conditions there. They had (riven the park a wonderful night effect." and at the same time had removed undesirable features of the nast. Floodlights woi'l* be placed in all the principal pa'-ks. This policy was in concurrence with the council's forward road policy, reerred to elsewhere, and should further add to the attractiveness of the city.