STREET LIGHTS AT NIGHT.

Southland Times, Issue 22361, 28 June 1934, Page 4

STREET LIGHTS AT NIGHT.

To the Editor. Sir,—I notice in to-day’s issue of your paper a paragraph referring to the action of our City Council in having the street lights turned off at midnight. 1 1 have often wondered what the reason for this is and whether our City Fathers realize that this practice puts Invercargill very much “behind the times.” Civic pride, I have found, flourishes here and the citizens are, generally speaking, very proud of Invercargill. How they are content to allow the town to be so obsolete and to make no protest is a mystery to me. Not only are lights wanted because it is the practice of towns generally to have their street lights burning all night, but because many of our pavements are in bad repair and some are more or less overgrown with grass. Timaru, for example, has longer hours of lighting and has better footpaths. Trusting Invercargill will refuse to be content to move along in the wake of smaller centres.—l am, etc., “ONE WHO HAS CRASHED.”