The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-12-12 00:00:00

INBPSCTOR Or WSIGHTB AND lIIIABUBSS.

The first business was to appoint an inspector of
Weights and Meamon's in tho room of Mr. Jewett,
reigned. The salary is CIO • year.
Mr. lionelms thought it would ho best to app lint the
Sept. of Pollee.
It was said twice a year weights and measures wore
examined.
Mr. Jewett said ho had gone into some shapi, and,
being asked why he selected ama and di.l not tako all,
he said he did not think it necessary to go t 3 shops
from which the weights and measures were regularly
brought for examination.
ICI reply to Mr. Banmertos query why he gave it up,
Mr. Jowett said he thought the office more particularly
belonged to the Sept. of Police.
Mr. BODO= said the Polies Superintendent was a very
lava officer, and be proposed that ho ho appointed.
Mr. BISHOP wended, and it was carried neat. ales.
Mr. VERNON remarked that It WU plito understood
when Mr. Coward was appUnted, that he h 'red have
the lasprotorship of Weights and Mc ltares tad alto of
Nuisance a.
Alderman GALPIN demurred to the allegation of
snob an "understanding."
Mr. VERNON said that vu the reason the salary was
put at 1:80.
Mr. Coward was called in and told of the resolution
passed, and asked if he would accept the °thee. Ile
replied yes and thanked the Council for th.., appoint.
meet.

PROPOSE:I LIGHTING OP THE BOOM WALE.
The report of the roads and walk, oointuittee, of
which Mr. G: J. G. Gregory is chairman, was read.
The committee recommended placing three: lamps in
the middle road of the Wollaston Field Estate, and
seven between the corner by Mr. Galpin'is and the lamp
at the ooruer of Charles-street by Mr. Bennett's. They
thought these would enable the South Walk to be mei
as a promenade by the inhabitants of the borough
generally— (applause). The Gas Company bad been I
asked if they would lay down the necessary mains,
and • reply was read stating they would do so, and
recommending the Council to adopt Luti's lamp with
porcelain reflecting top. The committee had called the
attention of the Gas Company to the fact that the
burners in some of the lamps were platted too high for
the proper diffusion of light, and the reply was that this
arose from the old lanterns being unsuited for the
" regulator" adopted, and reoommending the gradual
substitution of new lanterns. As to the trees the coin-
mittee earnestly requested the attention of the Council
that the committee might know what course to adopt.
Mr. (AMORY said that a letter from Mr. Pepe corn.
plaining of the dangerous state of the new road was
handed to the committee, and he called a meeting,
when it was thought desirable to discuss the whole
question of lighting the walk and the Wollaston Field
estate houses lately built and others now in course of
erection, and they considered it would be best to carry
out the whole scheme at once. The Surveyor had pre-
pared • plan showing their proposals, and it was for the
Council to consider the subject.
The MAYO/ remarked that at the last meeting when
Mr. Pope's letter was received, Mr. Galpin proposed
that the matter should not be entertained at all till it
was gone into more fully.
Mr GILPIN said be was very sorry to have occasion
be differ from the committee, as perhaps they were in
the possession of more information than the Council
g lip had, but he could not allow—he hoped ho
might be pardoned for saying so—suela an extravagant
outlay without comment. In a narrow thoroughfare—
from the top of Bell-street to Mr. Keats's, In 3110 feet
there were two lamps, or nearly 200 feet apart, while
seven lamps in the walks would only be ISO feet apart.
And, in the same length of road behind the houses of
Mr. Watson and others, only three lamps were pro.
poled.
The MAYOR r,marked that when the trees were in
leaf the light would only be diffused a small iii.tassea.
Mr. litleusTr thought that the West Walk required
lighting as mush as the South Walk.
Mr. Loon concurred that the question of lighting the
walks ought to be considered as a whole.
Mr. GLLPIN moved to reduce the number of lamps
along the South Walk from seven to five, and that they
be all placed on the north side.
Mr. HODGSB seconded.
The committee suggested placing the seven lamps on
alternate sides.
Mr. GALPIN urged that they should now only coesider
the lighting of the Wollaston Field estate.
Mr: VIINON proposed as an amends. it that the five
lamps be placed in the walk on altern it° sides.
This was not seconded
It MIA staid that in Fordington the lamps were from
135 feet to 280 feet apart.
Mr. BISHOP said that the committee did not consider
the subj et in the narrow way it had been discussed
here. There was an old proverb—That what is once
well done is always twice done, and the commit:ise
thought their proposal would light the district in qu...s.
tion effectually, but certainly not " extravagantly."
They considered that the labour to do the work well
would be very little more than to do it partially. and
therefore they proposed that lamps should be so placed
as to light the houses and the district generally. It
must be remembered that the houses on the Wollaston
Field estate contributed £7O a year to the rates, there-
fore the occupiers there were entitled to eff.witual
lighting. Omnibuses travelled those roads, persons
went there with merchandise, and light was required
' for the general public
Mr. 000NSII: Yon may serums that.
Mr. BISHOP: Yes, but it had been argued that they
had only to light the houses. He contended that it
would be wasteful to do the lighting partially. They
ought not to light the district only sufficiently to make
darkness visible, but in order to give some convenience
and security, The length of the walk was 1180 feet,
which would give 160 feet between ceoh lamp, and was
eertainly nothing very extravagant.
Mr, HOW'S remarked that there were two lamps
there already.
Mr: Manor.: They were plowed there to light other
roads. Ho did not see how they could very well do with
less than seven lamps, but if the Council liked to cut
down the number of trees to five, it would make the
light so much the less, and on the principle that a little
light was better than none, he would swept that
number with eery great gratitude, for previously b
in the dark had &pea advocated. The Inspectoeinrcit
police wben here told them he considered one light
equal to six poliumen.
Mr. : One light equal to ais *inane t