INDUSTRIES FAIR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25674, 24 October 1944, Page 6

INDUSTRIES FAIR

UNUSUAL LIGHTING EFFECTS The first thing that should strike visitors to the forthcoming New Zealand Industries Fair will be the lighting, which will be a special feature. In actual fact, a foretaste of things to come will be seen before the building is entered. Thanks to the City Electrical Department, there will be no doubt in anyone’s mind that something special is happening in Dunedin during the ten days from November 1 to November 11. The Octagon will be specially lit, and coloured lights will lead to the A. and P. Buildings, the buildings themselves being flood-lit in colour on a scale that has not been seen since public buildings were illuminated to celebrate the New Zealand Centennial. It is hoped also that for a period each night of the Fair that the Centennial Memorial on Signal Hill will be floodlit. This has not been done before, but it shquld be very effective. Inside the Brydone Hall all ordinary lighting is being discarded and nothing but fluorescent lighting will be used. Although, owing to the war, only a few factories have so far been able to obtain supplies of this type of lighting, it is certain that no modern factory will be Without it when supplies are available. Actually, fluorescent lighting reproduces daylight and casts no shadows. In the Industries Fair all roof lights are being dispensed with and in their place there will be a tube of lighting immediately above each stand, thus giving the effect of day and night. Paradoxically, therefore, the feature of the, lighting will be the fact that no one will be conscious that there is any.