STREET LIGHTING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 65, 12 March 1912, Page 6

STREET LIGHTING.

ERECTION OF A SEPARATE CIRCUIT.

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD

Cr. Ward brought up, at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council, the question of street lighting. He asked whether the Council had been consulted by the Company over the matter of erection of a separate circuit for the street lighting. He moved that a committee consisting of Councillors Sangcter, Paget, Healy, and the mover, be set up to cpnfer with the Electrical Supply Company. He referred to the matter of whfin the lights would he turned off, and considered that Broadway, at least, should he kept lighted all, night. The Deputy-Mayor said that the Company were putting on a day load. If the separate circuit was not put on, the lights would be going all day. Cr. Paget considered that what Cr. Ward intended the committee to dis-. cuss was the matter of the control of the lights—whether their officers should turn them on and out. On moonlight nights a considerable saving could he effected, though not under the present contract, when they paid so much per light. The committee might ascertain whether it would pay them to have a contract to pay by the night instead of by the lamp. “I think,” he added, “that before anything further is done the whole of the contract with the Electric Light Company with regard to street lighting should be renewed in the direction that Cr. Ward lias indicated.”

The motion was carried. Cr. Healy moved that the Town Clerk prepare a return showing the cost of the street lighting during the past sin months, as compared with the corresponding period of* last year. This was carried.

Cr. Lawson then referred to breakages of the street lamps by employees of the company, and it was decided that the attention of the company be drawn to this matter.