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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 January 1942, Page 4

PUBLIC NOTICES. PUBLIC NOTICE. ELIMINATION OF SKYGLOW AND PROVISION FOR A BLACK-OUT. MASTERTON, CARTERTON GREYTOWN, FEATHERSTON AND MARTINBOROUGH BOROUGHS; MASTERTON, CASTLEPOINT, WAIRARAPA SOUTH AND FEATHERSTON COUNTIES.

JN conformity with the Lighting Restrictions Emergency Regulations, 1941, and Amendments thereto, and by direction of the Dominion Lighting Controller, we hereby give Public Notice and Order as follows: — At all times until further notice:— 1. No lights in shops or shop windows or elsewhere, shall be left on time switch control. Where there is no person in attendance on any premises to operate switches, all lighting shall remain switched off. 2. No cars shall be left standing with any light showing at any point in a road, street, or other position which is directly visible from the open sea. 3. In skyglow areas, that is, those areas not directly visible from the open sea, every room lighted at night time must have window blinds fully drawn over each window and fanlight. 4. All lighting under verandahs, in porch entrances to shops, above verandahs, and on roofs, including gaseous discharge tube lighting, illuminated signs, building outline lighting, flood lighting, and any other form of exterior night time illumination, is to be disconnected from sunset to sunrise. 5. The interior lighting of public service passenger vehicles must be shaded so that no direct light passes outside the confines of the vehicle. 6. All shop window light sources must be shielded by means of a pelmet of opaque material or paint, so that — (a) The light source cannot be seen from any position in the street, and (b) Direct light from the sources is confined to the interior of the window. The brightness of the shop windows to be such that the value of reflected light therefrom as measured in the street on a vertical plane 4 feet above street level and at a distance of 6 feet from the building line does not exceed 0.1 (one-tenth) foot' candle. The maximum size of a shop window light source is not to exceed in light output that of a 60 watt 690 lumen clear filament lamp. 7. No light shall be displayed AT ANY TIME inside any building or other covered enclosure in such circumstances that ANY ILLUMINATION therefrom, either direct or indirect, is visible from the open sea or visible with aided vision from a point 150 feet above the open sea, or which might, if any windows or other openings are not suitably screened, contribute to skyglow which might be so visible.

During a Period of Emergency: 8. Immediately following the sounding of the emergency warning signal, all interior lighting must be either extinguished or completely blacked out by means of suitable screens opaque to light, so that no illumination therefrom, either direct or indirect, is visible from outside the building or enclosure. 9. (a) Suitable masks consisting of two thicknesses of newspaper or its equivalent must be carried by all vehicles. (b) During a period of emergency, no interior lighting of the vehicle is permitted unless all windows are blacked out. (c) During a period of emergency, moving vehicles, including bicycles, must display no more than two forward facing lights, and a tail light, the apertures through which the light is emitted being screened with masks of two thicknesses of newspaper, or its equivalent. The power of the lamp used in each light may not exceed 7 watts, which is equivalent to the power of the average parking light. (d) During a period of emergency, no light shall be displayed on any vehicle which is parked. 10. “Period of Emergency” in respect of any locality means the period between the giving of an emergency warning signal in that locality and the giving of an “All Clear” signal in that locality. 11. Further notice is hereby given that the provisions of this “Order” will come into force on the 22nd day of January, 1942, and must be complied with immeditaely. THOS. JORDAN, Chairman of the E.P.S. Organisation representing the Borough of Masterton and the Counties of Masterton and Castlepoint. D. L. TAVERNER, Chairman of the E.P.S. Organi- \ sation representing the Borough of Carterton and the Wairarapa South County. A. B. MARTIN, Chairman of the E.P.S. Organisation representing the Boroughs of Greytown, Featherston and Martinborough and the Featherston County.