ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13700, 15 September 1908, Page 7

ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

SCALE OF CHARGES.

At ];is| night's meeting nf llw Borough Council, le tcis we re read from Messrs Kcoit. iclatinjr to Ihe suggestions made by the electrical engineer, Wellington, on the Council's-conditions for supplvi-ig current. They were prepared to adopt th'ise suggestion!-, and if the uiinimnim of two hums n".-iii retained in clause 5 Irelatng -'o Mils), they proposed 1.0 allow concisions in prii-e of current, ou a standaid charge of Od p.r unit—l 2£ per cent, if the ciuv-uuiption exceeded 50 units pur month, 25 per i-cii". if over 100 units per nioiuli, with minimum charges of 16s. 8d and 21V> 2d respectively, these to prevent ajiomalß-* in the cave of those using only a few units over the lim't. With regard to lighting ilicy proposed to charge Is per unit and discounti and minimum charges as follows:—Monhly service less than 10 units, discount, Id. miniimmi ?.<; 8d; 10 to '25 units, 2d and r Js 10d; 25 to 100, 3d and £1 0s 10,1 ; over 100 units, Id and £3 15.". Regarding Mr Kithardson's suggestion that the 50 megohm lesti was rather high, he nmsi. have om'lled to note that th« sysfin was of 4-10 voldv, or four limes as high as the Wellington eyskm. In leply to a ipicry, the Mayor saiiil that I lie only comparison he could make between t.hc cost of electricity and g;us was one given by ihe Town Clerk of Sydney some lime ago. who said that gas at 5s per 1000 wars erjual to electricity at 6d per unit. The Tiniaru electricity was sealed down |,i ,-;.| p._-1- mi if, and .gas was I'V net. Coum jlliirs nienl nned several places where the sli.-ef lighting \ias dcticient. and it u ».* agr.ed in drive mimd .Hid' m:ik» an iuspec ion n»\t- Friday evening. An iiv|iriry from tie- Level?, (Jointly Council as in i lie terms on which .streetlighhs would 1.. :.uppli«>| to sub ii i ban .•■lreels had le. en fnniarded |o M»vi rs Scott, an.l tin i-i-ply had yet been received.