A SUNSET GLORY

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 10

A SUNSET GLORY

WELLINGTON MAGICALLY TRANSFORMED WONDERFUL AND COLOURFUL SCENE It will ever be a question whether the glorious and brilliant sunset which evening bathed Wellington in a. flood of burnished silver and gold will ever in our own time, be repeated. A strange tranquillity after a day of gusts and squalls gave place quite suddenly to an uncanny flood of yellow night, which brought even inartistic people to their windows. To the south a sky of the most piercing viridian and green made a most adequate background for the j oiliest display of burnished brass in the way of scattered clouds that ever Wellington has seen. To the north a wild and bounding horizon of wet and sobbing demons, skirted the Hutt Valley, which with all its own mansions failed dismally to attract the attention from this wonderful display of late after-,/ noon sunlight reflected in the clouds above.

From the tall “Dominion” building, Wellington has surely never been seen to better advantage—a city of tall white buildings suddenly transformed by the reflected glory of a geuerous and kindly King Sol to a golden city of many pinnacles set against an amethyst blue sea of infinite tranquillity.

To those who were privileged to witness a strangely wonderful sunset from the heights of Wellington the scene must have been one of great splendour. The wonder of which can surely never be explained by any weather prophet—shall we call it a fluke?