ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
AUCKLAND, Fkjiri-ary IG. An amended plan for the electric lighting of the city, submitted to the Council last night by Mr J. C. Firth, provides for eight towers. Each tower will light a circle of fifty chains diameter, and will have on it four arc lights of 2,000 candle-power eacli; but two additional lamps can be added if necessary, making a 12,000 candle-power light for each tower. These towers will vary in height from 100 ft to '2soft. The present lighting of the city is about 5,000 candlepower, and of the electric light system proposed 04,000 candle-power. There will be twelve times the illuminating power, at an increase of 10 per cent, in the cost. A separate plan is provided for lighting the Art Gallery and Public Library—namely, by the incandescent system.
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Evening Star, Issue 7448, 17 February 1888, Page 2
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134ELECTRIC LIGHTING. Evening Star, Issue 7448, 17 February 1888, Page 2
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