IMPROVED LIGHTING AT UNIVERSITY

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24270, 30 May 1944, Page 6

IMPROVED LIGHTING AT UNIVERSITY

♦ PROGRESS REPORTED TO COLLEGE COUNCIL Five rooms at Canterbury University College are to be equipped with fluorescent lighting at a cost of £560. If this first instalment of the programme for improving the lighting of the college proves as successful as it is expected to be, the remainder of the buildings will be lit in the same way. The progress of the lighting improvement plan was reported to the college council yesterday by the chairman of the works committee (Mr J. H. E. Schroder), who said authority for the work in the five rooms had been given some time ago, but there had been unavoidable delay because materials were not available for the plan first adopted. It was now possible to adopt an alternative plan, using fluorescent lighting, for which they could get materials. Mr Schroder said it was only fair to say that the college council had not been as apathetic about the need for better lighting as had been suggested. The students had become active in the question not before, but after, the college council. He said that not in a controversial spirit but to record the fact. Mr Schroder said these five rooms represented about one-fourteenth of the total, or a mere fraction of the work which would ultimately be done. It could be regarded as experimental, but there was every reason to believe it would be effective, and would be a standard or model for the lighting of the rest of the college. The remainder of the scheme would cost about £6OOO, and it should be accompanied by redecoration which would cost about £4OOO. The total cost of £IO,OOO would become one of the college’s claims on the Government for special assistance.