Beautiful by Day and Night

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 46, 30 May 1930, Page 32

Beautiful by Day and Night

Auckland Museum Well Lit THE Auckland Powér Board leave nothing to chance when they present a lighting plant to the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Only too often do edifices such as this lose their attractiveness after dark-and when the attractiveness goes so, frequently, does the significance. The plant and the cost of its erection will be borne by the Power Board, and a scheme of flood lighting which will render the Museum as prominent by night as by day is planned. The cost will be about £1100. ‘The general manager states that the idea being aimed at is to silhouette the structure sharply against the sky-line, and in turn to silhouette the cenhotaph against the building. Care will be taken to make the actual source of the light as inconspicuous as possible. For this purpose the floods are to be carried on ornamental standards erected to a height of eighteen feet from the ground levél, the floods themselves . being concealed in ornamental lanterns. These standards will be six in number, each carrying two lanterns glazed with a fairly heavy diffusing glass. Every project is to be fitted with a 1500-watt lamp, and the panels of these lamps will be illuminated with small 60-watt lamps to produce thé effect of an ordinary lighting fitting, thus offering no suggestion of projectors. ‘The intensity of the light thrown on the museum will not be great, but adequate. We congratulate the Auckland Power Board on a well-thought-out scheme-it is a noble tribute to Auckland’s heroes.