UNSIGHTLY POLES.
Ornamental Standards. are Required.
“ The Municipal Electricity Department has plenty of funds with which to do away with the unsightly poles and wires for street lighting,” declared the chairman of the Christchurch Beautifying Association (Mr R. B. Owen) when the question of modernising the street lighting system was under discussion at the association’s meeting. He said that the scheme would provide work for the unemployed. Nothing so struck visitors to Christchurch as the poles which cluttered up the streets. The association decided to ask the council to modernise the system in the central area by underground wiring and ornamental lamp standards.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20632, 5 June 1935, Page 11
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103UNSIGHTLY POLES. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20632, 5 June 1935, Page 11
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