Speaking on the future of electrical supply, Mr E. Hitchcock, General Manager of the Municipal Electricity Department, in the course of an address at Wellington yesterday, mentioned the possibility of an early and revolutionary change in lighting. Individual lamps and fittings will tend to give place to a form of lighting in which architectural features. either exterior or interior, are themselves made luminous,” he said. “The advent of gaseous electric lamps or tubes in practical forms for ordinary voltages mav wit'-ve s both «t much reduced consumption : ml a greatly increased use of liglP Various new and sensitive forms of -electrical control will multiply the applications of electricity In an infinite variety of purposes.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1932, Page 4
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114Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1932, Page 4
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