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221
NEW LAMPS.
Silver Street
1
Nelldale Road 1
1
Somerset Place 1
Lower Road
5
8
506
LAMP DISCONTINUED.
Jewett Street 1
Total 505
LAMPS ALTERED.
Church Stairs, bracket for column.
Neptune Street, altered position of Urinal.
Nelldale Road, owing to additional lamp in street.
Swan Lane, on account of street improvement.
Lower Road (2), to suit positions of new lamps.
When the question of improving the Lighting of the Lower Road was under
consideration, I placed myself in communication with the Engineer to the Gas Company
as to trying the incandescent burners upon the main roads, and the Vestry accepted his
offer to fix six as an experiment. They were fixed in the Union Road on 14th November,
between Cathay Street and Paradise Street, but the Company were compelled on 1st
January to remove the burner from Lamp No. 22, as the mantles would not stand owing to
the continued jarring and vibration caused by the heavy traffic at that point. I he live are
still up, and had used, up to the 25th March, as follows:—
55 Mantles.
18 Forks.
3 Chimneys.
It is my intention at the end of the experiments, or earlier if 1 can oitain the necessary
particulars from the Gas Company, to present to the Vestry a report upon the cost of the
lighting with these burners as compared with ordinary street ones.