STREET LIGHTING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9105, 3 June 1908, Page 4

STREET LIGHTING.

Masterton is not the worst lighted town of its size in the Dominion by any means, but there is still room for improvement. There is, for instance, a modern thoroughfare known as Walton Avenue, wherein the unfortunate dwellers have frequently to brave an incomparably muddy roadway of a good many chains in the Egyptian darkness of some of our winter nights. Then in parts even of Queen Street, our chief highway, the lamps are unfortunately few for those who have to pass frequently up and down the badly illumined lengths. It so happens that where the mud is worst—between Rcnall's creek and Queen Street South—the lamps are scarce, while our beautiful tar macadam, which has no miry rnun'iraps, has a striking array of gaily lit centre-posts. Chapel Street, another important thoroughfare, has also lengths enveloped in blackest darkness where the mud lies deepest, and so on through the borough. No one expects to see a town where the footpad is unknown lit on the scale of a city, but we do think that benighted townsfolk should have sufficient protection afforded by the street lamps in exposing the lesser dangers of some of our slippery winter roads.