ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 9

ELECTRIC LIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—Conspicuous in your advertising columns on Saturday morning was the Dunedin City Corporation's urgent message to electricity consumers, and anyone ■ reading that would surely realise the absolute necessity to take heed to the warnlog thus issued. In this connection there-

fore it was rather interesting in walking through the town on Sunday evening to note who had and who had not responded to the councils request to “start n«w” in the exercise of the rigid economy that. IV U £ ged upon ColJS umera. Many shops which are, as a- rule, brilliantly lighted w 1 Sunday night were in darkness, but it was truly astonishing to see the number definition not s . u , rel y here is one definite source of considerable .saving in the consumption of the limited power, available. Your' paragraph in to-day’s thin B n IOWS tlmt ev ?dentfy something nmre than a mere warning is needed to mite bil?«es realise Public responsiiffin; the Sunday night lighting up of shops should at ordinary times not be a necessity, much less fore when, the indulgence of some owners “l ean com Pkte loss of electric power conttnue PUI ? OSe lf + t us dry weather should continue— l am, etc., e M iff Dunedin, May 5. ■