EXHIBITION ILLUMINATIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2010, 20 February 1907, Page 3

EXHIBITION ILLUMINATIONS.

COST OF LIGHTING: CHRISTCHURCH, Inst night Tlio electrical lighting of tlio Exhibition, including a beautiful illuniination of tlio front and grounds, is said to cost about £350 a week, exclusive of the cost of electricity used tor power, which totals about 9QO horsepower per week, valued at another £6O. Tlio 1700 eiglit-onndlo power incandescent lamps on the front of the two towers and t-lio domo at the main entrance burn electricity to tlio value of about £6O a week, and 105 sixteen-caiullo power lamps forming tlio word “Hnoromai” account for ail additional £9. Inside tlio .dome are 168 lamps of 50-eandlo power, each costing over £4O a week. Tlio grand hall is lighted by 24 lamps of 55candle power, 133 electrical horsepower being required to light the towers, entrance, and the grand hall. About 1500 electric lamps are used io illuminate AA’ondorlaiid, the cost,, including power, being about; £6O a week. Three hundred electric lamps encircle AUctorin lake, and there are 150 eight-power lamps over tlio pavilion at the Armagh street, entrance to the Exhibition. Altogether the Exhibition is lighted by 5000 small incandescent. lamps, and approximately 250 arc lamps, varying from 500 to 2000-candle power each. Those figures do not include tlio gas lighting, which forms a special contract. The illumination is visible miles out at sea, and from a considerable distance up country.