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BY FLOODLIGHTING. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! LONDON, September 2. There were amazing scenes in London to-night, when, to the astonishment of the authorities, hundreds of thousands of people crowded the city and West End streets to witness the flood-{lighting of the principal {buildings the celebrating of the Conference of the International Illumination Congress. The crowds in the streets was the densest seen since the Armistice. Thy foregathered at St. Paul’s to see Wren’s Dome outlined in silvery lights. Elsewhere searchlights played on the towers and pinnacles of such buildings as Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Westminster Cathedral, revealing lovely and unsuspected beauties. There were equally novel scenes on the Thames, where fire floats threw up great jets of water on which van coloured beams played.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1931, Page 6
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