LUX LIGHT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 11

LUX LIGHT.

An illumination power equal to that of 1000 candles, at a cost of only an hour, is claimed for the Lux light, which is said to be at once the cheapest, most brilliant, and most satisfactory of all artificial illuminants. From the' New Zealand headquarters, situated in Old Customhouse-street, all parts of ihe Dominion are being supplied with these kerosene-consuming lamps, and the demand has been so great that the available stock of the largest size, 2000 candle-power, has proved unequal to the calls, and several Wellington i business houses are awaiting the new shipment. The new light is to be seen at the shops of Mr. G. Winder, Te Aro House, Wardell Brothers, Bates and uee, Caterer and Carey, Qiardon and Gotch, and other well-known business places in Wellington. John M'Lean and Sons, contractors for building the new dock, have the light installed at their works, and the Government rail- ( way workshops at Petone and Addington are similarly lit. A twelve months' trial at Cross's Creek station — an exposed situation — was given to the lamp before it was adopted by the Railway Department. It is widely installed in Australia. The stadium, in which Burns was beaten by Johnson, is lit by it ; on the Warringah bowling green, Sydney, bowlers play by night, under its gleam, such fixtures as Victoria v. -New South Wales ; and the business houses of dozens of cities use it for their illumination ; ill fact, the Lux proprietary claims that its light is the only one of its kind in the world that successfully replaces electricity and gas, in large cities, for shop lighting. One Willis-street firm is said to be saving £40 a year through having installed it.