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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 35, 26 December 1905, Page 2

At the last meeting of the Winton Borough Oounoil, Messrs Fleming and Co submitted proposals to the council for lighting that town with the electric light. The council decided to ask Mr Fleming to meet them at their next meeting, and discuss the question on all its bearings. Might we suggest that now would be a moat favourable time for our Town Board to approach Fleming and Co on similar business. This fhrmarenow. makipg extensive alterat-

ions and additions to the Otautau flourmill, and, besides erecting new and upr to-date milling machinery, they .are putting m steam power, as well as improving the present, water power, so there would he a certainty of sufficient power to run an extensive eleotri# lighting plant at flood' time, as m any other contingency. It is nofc only the lighting of our street lamps, which is a comparatively small affair, and, m the past, has been diminutive to a degree, but the lighting of .our Town IJall, hotels, and private residences. No doubt the Town Board are the .only power who could negotiate such a contract as this, which would enable them to so municapalise the electric lighting of the whole town, and there is no doubt that an immeasurably superior light for both public and private purposes, could, ■ with such an arrangement as we have suggested, be had lor less cost than the present methods adopted, by kerosene lamps or otherwise. ,