ELECTRIC LIGHTING

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30578, 22 October 1964, Page 23

ELECTRIC LIGHTING

“Very Cheap Commodity” Night could be turned Into day in Christchurch now, if people were prepared to pay for the electricity and installation, said the managing director of the G.E.C. (Lamps and Lighting), Ltd., of England (Mr A. E. Page) in Christchurch. “We are still in this year on the fringe of the uses and application of artificial light and possibly too in respect of the sources of light which we use,” said Mr Page, who is on a business tour of the company’s interests in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and India. Electric lighting was, in relation to its advantages and benefits, a very cheap commodity today, he said. Mr Page said that in his opinion, with the growth of traffic, safety in the streets ultimately would necessitate artificial lighting of all arterial roads, even outside the main cities. “It is a trend that is occurring in England,” he said. The application of electric lighting, said Mr Page, continued to progress particularly in design and in the use of industrial and street lighting.

A recent. development, he said, had been the tungsteniodine lamp, in which the General Electric Company had played a leading part. This type of lamp was already being used for flood-lighting of sports fields, buildings and other large areas. Mr Page w'ill leave Christchurch by air for Sydney today.