BRIGHTER BRITAIN.
FLOODLIGHT DISPLAYS.
LONDON, March 19
One of live world's spectacles is the Capitol Building, in Washington, which when flood-lighted each night, dominates the city. Many equally magic impressions will be obtainable in Britain during the.summer sessions of the International Illumination Congress.
London's chief buildings will be floodlighted to an extent suggesting to citizens that they belong to a dream city. Gas and electricity companies are to defray the cost of the programme, including the illumination of Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Big Ben, St. Paul's, and the Thames waterfront. In Edinburgh they will illuminate the castle on its majestic rock.
It is hoped thus to stimulate a demand tea. better lighting «£ iha larger towns.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 7
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117BRIGHTER BRITAIN. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 7
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