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REPORT, 1899-1900.
PUBLIC LIGHTING DEPARTMENT.
The number of lamp-posts and bracket lamps in
lighting on the 25th March last was 1,969, each
consuming 4.6 cubic feet of gas per hour, and being
in lighting for a total number of 3,881.79 hours
during the year.
The number of refuge and special corner lamps,
&c., their candle power and gas consumption, &c.,
will be found on pages 146 and 147.
The Gas Company have been served during the
year with 314 notices to rectify defective service
pipes, and remove accumulation of naphthalene, &c.,
therefrom.
Forty-five reports of damage to lamp-posts, &c.,
have been received during the year, 4 lamp-posts,
columns, and fittings, being completely broken, 21
columns and stand pipes damaged, while in the
remaining cases only the lanterns, head-irons, &c.,
required repairing.
The restoration of the above damage was carried
out by the Vestry's workmen at a cost of £48 2s. 7d.
Accounts have been rendered whenever particulars
of the persons causing the damage could be
obtained, and £21 17s. 5d. has been received by the