COMMUNITY LIGHTING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23401, 18 July 1939, Page 15

COMMUNITY LIGHTING

A SCHEME FOR DEVONPORT POWER BOARD'S PROPOSALS The question of a modern community lighting scheme for Devonport was brought forward at a meeting of the Waitemata Electric-Power Board yesterday. when proposals which will be placed before the shopkeepers of the borough were adopted. Fifty-four premises had been included in a previous scheme which was installed in 192!). stated .Mr. A. Main, the manager, in a report to the board, but a breakdown of the scheme had been caurcd by a number of shopkeepers disconnecting their lamps as they felt the effects of the depression. The scheme, which was based on a charge per lamp basis, lasted only 12 months. The proposed new agreement provided for an annual liability on each shopkeeper. Owing to the capital cost to which the board would be committed, it was recommended that the agreement be for live years from the date of the completion of the installation of the scheme. The lamps would be placed 10ft. apart. The board was agreeable to providing and maintaining the necessary fittings and lamps to supply the western side of Victoria Road, and it was recommended that the individual shopkeepers agree to pay an amount assessed at "is, less 2;"> per cent discount a month, for each 100-wait lamp connected to the community lighting circuit between dusk and 11.15 p.m. The eastern side did not lend itself to such a scheme and it was recommended that only the several _ shops which already took community lighting with the old-type fittings be supplied with new fitiings at no extra cost.