THE WAY OF PROGRESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12408, 28 August 1918, Page 4

THE WAY OF PROGRESS.

The fact that two polls were taken in Waimairi County ridings yesterday on questions of extending the lighting systems is of some general interest. Proposals to borrow £7OOO for a special lighting area in the Marshland riding, and a similar amount for the inner area of the county were carried by substantial majorities. The Waimairi County has always been distinguished for its progressive spirit. Many of the roads under its control in areas contiguous to the city are as well lighted as the streets of the Christchurch suburbs, and the determination to extend the improvement is a worthy one. The success of electrical street lighting is one of the best tributes to the Lake Coleridge scheme. Without the Coleridge power many lighting extensions would have been impossible, or would not have been undertaken for many years to come. The diffusion of electric power over North Canterbury has been .accomplished on a fairly wide scale in a short space of time, and the limit of the extensions has not been reached by any means. The invasion of the country districts is one of the best features. It is an advertisement of the Lake Coleridge scheme, and it takes electric lighting, which was not so long ago regardecTas a purely city convenience, into the streets, homes end workshops of the country. The Waimairi ridings have given another evidence of their possession of the progressive spirit.