EDENDALE STATION LIGHTING.

Southland Times, Issue 19281, 27 June 1924, Page 9

EDENDALE STATION LIGHTING.

To the Editor. . Sir, —In your issue of the 24th, I notice a letter in reply to mine which appeared in your paper on the 23/6/24. If “reflector” will come to Edendale and place himself behind some of our “farthing dips” and 2j candle power lamps with the object of trying to reflect the light on to the platform, he will be doing a much better work than barracking for a Government whose days are numbered and who have nothing to show for their term of office but the huge debt they have piled up and the way they have neglected the travelling public. If “Reflector” were on the express some night and, wishing to stretch his legs, got out on Edendale Railway platform and while doing so, someone looking for their friends came up with a lighted match or candle, and putting up the light to see who he was, burned his nose, then I am sure “Reflector” would quickly change his name to “Light Wanted.” I would also ask “Reflector” when speaking of the dairymen of the Eastern district to call them by their proper name. If he know the intelligence of the Edendale dairymen as I do, by the way,, they express themselves as being fed up and “full up” of the Massey Government, then he would not call them cowspankers, but would call them by their right name. Let me advise “Reflector” to copy the intelligence of the dairymen of, the Eastern district and vote for a party who will have enough progress about them to know that when the member for Mataura has worked hard to get the Edendale Railway station lighted by electricity and has failed, that something urgent requires to be done and is best done by removing the party in power that is not progressive enough for present-day requirements.—l am, etc., CMiDLE POWER.” [While sympathising with the demand for electric light for the Edendale Railway station, we cannot help reminding our correspondent that he asks too much when he suggests the overturn of the national Government in order to secure illumination for Edendale. More light he wants, but less heat surely.—Ed. S.T.]