LIGHTING IN HOMES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24104, 24 October 1941, Page 4

LIGHTING IN HOMES

Sir, —It will be a great pity it' Mr. Darlow's roported remarks to the Waitemata Kleetric-I'owor Hoard on .Monday induce people to stint themselves of proper home lighting as a war economy. No one has yet explained how reductions in the lighting load at night can he of any help in meeting the problem of generating rapacity. The only time when such reductions an> useful is early on winter evenings, when the industrial and lighting loads tend to overlap. Of course, where steam generation is used to supplement water-power • •very unit saved means an economy in coal, but in any case lighting reductions are far less important than avoidance of wastage in domestic heating, which eats up far more current. Inadequate artificial light is responsible for a great deal of eye-trouble and helps mightily to keep the opticians busy. However, if the householder "ill use' n little ingenuity in rigging up suitable local lighting where it is required—as, for example, over the table where the children do their homework eyesight can be protected without any extravagant use of power. There is no need tf> light a room so brilliantly that a newspaper can be read in any part! of it. Camjlepower. j