LIGHT OR NO LIGHT.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 274, 19 December 1913, Page 3

LIGHT OR NO LIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR. Slß,—The reports of three engineers obtained last June by the Te Awamutu Town Board set forth the claim of each engineer to his respective system of lighting—that of coal gas, electricity, and acetylene. From the reading of these reports it may be conceded that each system, from a local point of view, has some special advantage, and that no one could claim for any one of them all the advantagespossessed by the other two. Each advocate, however, claimed success for his method of lighting it adopted for Te Awamutu. The ratepayers also consider that any of the: above methods would be successful, as almost all have voted in favour of one or other of these during the past year. But the majority has decided in favour of electricity, yet that majority must be increased on the 23rd, in order to obtain the necessary loan. It thus depends on the minority who favoured other methods of lighting, whether Te Awamutu will have light or remain in darkness during the next two years, as no poll can be taken on this issue during that period. In these affairs all admit that the decision of the majority is the very best criterion for deciding all issues. The majority therefore cherish the hope that the minority will throw in their lot with them at the approaching poll, and bring our town and district from darkness into light. It cannot well 1-e denied that the coming power of the world for lighting andindustryiselectricity, which will, if not at present, possess all the advantages of coal gas and acetylene, for lighting, cooking, heating, and industry. There are various methods by fohich electricity may be generated for local purposes. The Town Board has not committed/ itself to either, as it would J?e yet premature. But the may rely that the bestyrfystem will be adopted if the/supply the ways and means af the coming poll, and brofg light and prosperity to omj/town and dis : tricts. —I am.Qlt, X T. P. lynch.