ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13592, 6 October 1914, Page 7

ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

RICHMOND AND BRIGHTWATER.

STEADY INCREASE IN NUMBER OF

CONSUMERS

The electric light plant erected at the Brightwater Flourmills for lighting Richmond and Brightwater is running very satisfactorily. A large number of consumers are now connected up, including five churches, and more lights are being installed at the rate of 50 Hants a month. The good demand for the v light s.hows that the public fully appreciate the benefits derived from it. The main street in Brightwater is now lighted, with eight lights of 50 candlepower each, giving the village quite an up-to-date, appearance. The Brightwater railway station has had an electric lamp installed, which is a marked improvement and a great convenience for the public. It has been found necessary to erect a second transformer in Richmond already, to cope with the demand, bringing the present available lights for Richmond to over 800. The electric wiring in Richmond has been connected in separate circuits through different feed-boxes, with their separate fuses, making' it so that if anything goes wrong on one circuit it will not affect the others. These improvements have been carried out in a capable manner by Mr L. Ellis, who is the electrician in charge of the department. The power used is only a fraction of the excellent -water-power derived from the Wairoa river. A duplicate plarit-which has been ordered in England, and is expected to airive and be.installed by Christmas, will bring the available lights to some 3000. . I