THOSE LAMPS AGAIN.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir. — As my timo is too valuablo to interview tho Town Clerk re lamplighter's duties, I a«k permission to inform " Fair Play" through your columns, it was only in justice to a benighted citizen I took the trouble to reply to his letter of tho 14th or the 15th as I had personally noticed one lamp on three occasions within eleven days bing unlit, apart from constantly hearing of others, and questions asked how to rectify the samo. Some ratepayers say they have complained until they are tired, others say that they do not know how. Amongst them strange to say residents of the West Ward as well as tho East, Possibly "Fair Play" wou'd hear t!.e same remarks if he occasionally took a stroll on the South Road on a very rough ovening, when you would hardly accuse the larrikins, friends or foes ot Mr E. M. Smith, of extinguishing, as I hear one Councillor has Btated ia frequently done. If so, why does not the lamplighter complain, as he must know they were put out by others than himself. I rni.'bt state 1 am neither friend nor foo of E, M. Smith, only a rate* payer, — I am, &c, Another Benighted Citizen.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9767, 27 July 1893, Page 2
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210THOSE LAMPS AGAIN. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9767, 27 July 1893, Page 2
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