SHADING NAPIER LIGHTS
VISIBLE MANY MILES AT SEA [HV TELEGRAPH—OWN CORRESPONDENT] NAPIER, Thursday Napier is being subjected to a partial black-out. The measures are being taken by the authorities to restrict visibility from the sea of the strings of bright street lights and ornamental lamps"u hicli normally turn night into dav oil the half-mile Marine Parade. The parade parallels the seashore, and it is considered inadvisable to allow it to be brightly illuminated, as in the past, to such an extent that its line is visible many miles out to sea. The globes of the street lamps are bein< r provided with semi-cylindrical shades on the seaward side, while cluster lamps on standard poles are being painted black on the .seaward face.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23860, 10 January 1941, Page 9
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122SHADING NAPIER LIGHTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23860, 10 January 1941, Page 9
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