£350 EXPENDITURE
TECHNICAL COLLEGE LIGHTS
SOON TO BE SCREENED
A threat that the Wellington Technical College would be disconnected from the electrical supply
and that an information would be
issued under the lighting: regulations if breaches of the regulations were committed at the college was ! made in a letter from the local lighting controller (Mr. L. B. Hutton), which came before the Board of Governors of the college last night. The letter said that unless windows of the college were screened no light was to be used in those rooms at night. The chairman (Mr. W. Appleton) said that some time ago the lights in the college had been dimmed as far as possible, but an additional expense of £SSO would be involved in screening all the windows of the college as was now required. The board had no authority to spend that money and it had referred the matter to the Education Department, which had authorised the expenditure. Arrangements were proceeding and in the meantime the only thing to do was to close down at 8 p.m. The board had done all it possibly could. . ■ * ! I Mr. G. M. Dawson and Colonel T. W. i McDonald s»aid that the board should I consider closing the college at night.] '•I'm strongly of the opinion that this school should not. be open at night any longer,'' said Colonel McDonald. "I say that emphatically, because I think there is no more dangerous position in Wellington than this." The director of the college (Mr. R. G. Ridling) said that the windows of 1 the college would be screened by curtains. The lights in the college were already reduced in glare by cardboard covers. To close the college at night would adversely affect the efficiency of, industry and commerce, said Mr. Ridling. The chairman expressed ihe opinion lhat if there was any raid 'from Japan it would come in the morning—say between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m., and he did not think there was much risk in the evernngr. He thought they should continue with the earlier closing of the college in the meantime and not close down altogether at nigh. /
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 4
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357£350 EXPENDITURE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 4
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