PLANS IN WELLINGTON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22094, 27 April 1935, Page 13

PLANS IN WELLINGTON

GOVERNMENT FUNCTION ADDRESS BY LORD GALWAY SPECIAL LIGHTING SCHEME [by telegraph OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Friday Plans for the suitable commemoration in Wellington by the Government of His Majesty's accession to the Throne are already well in hand. On May 6 there will be a parade of the Militai'y Forces in Wellington, and this will be co-ordinated with the ceremony to take place on the steps of Parliament House in the morning. It is expected that addresses will be given by the GovernorGeneral, Lord .acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, and the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop. The churches of Wellington have been asked to participate in the ceremony and the City Council is falling in with the Government's plans. At the conclusion of the ceremony there will be a march past of troops, the GovernorGeneral taking the salute from a dais. The ceremony will be the - only public Government function.

If the arrangements now in hand are carried out in their entirety, the public of Wellington during jubilee week will be treated to a spectacle of illumination such as has never previously been seen in New Zealand. Extensive plans are in hand by tho Public Works Department and the Post- and Telegraph Department for the illumination of the Government buildings in the city, and if the civic authorities and others join in with the general scheme Wellington at night should present an imposing SP An a entirely novel system of coloured flood-lighting is to be adopted for Parliament Buildings, and special lamps for this purpose were imported from London by the Mataroa, which arrived at Auckland yesterday. These electric lamps are similar to those being used for illuminating London during the jubilee celebrations and represent a new form of flood-lighting. The actual light from the lamps is coloured, and the effect is different from that obtained bv placing colouring material m fro " of a white light. The particulars of this system of coloured flood-lighting reached New Zealand only recently and the equipment for Wellington had to be ordered by cablegram.