Air L. Pooro and Miss B. M’Lcan "'ere tl;o passengers in tho stunting hihition given by Captain rAian ,f)icicson at llangiora on Saturday. “ In Market Street, San Francisco ” said Air J. H. Alerrett at a dinner tendered to him on Saturday evening, “ you will geo more electric lights than in tho whole of Christchurch. Wo aro limply lost in the use ot electricity when it comos to street lighting, signs, and the many uses to which it may be applied. Alany American country towns are much better lighted than our streets, but we must bo grateful; what would wo bo without our Lake Coleridge scheme? When we have five lights to every one now scon wo will begin to approach the right appreciation of electricity. In tho modern homo in America this wonderful power is used for thirty-two different purposes, oven to flis rackin£ of the cradle.’’
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20032, 23 August 1920, Page 7
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