BRIGHTENING GISBORNE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 4

BRIGHTENING GISBORNE

CORONATION DECORATIONS GLADSTONE ROAD SCHEME SOME WORK STARTED Cisbomc should present a blaze of colour during Coronation week when the proposals now in hand have been carried out by the Public Works- Department and borough Council. Business firms already have made a start with the decoration of their frontages.

The Post Office will be concentrated on by flic Public Works Department, and the proposal is to illuminate that building in a blaze of coloured light. The capabilities of the floodlights were tested a week ago, and the scheme provides for two on the Gladstone road aide of the structure and three on the Customhouse street side. The floodlights will be erected on standards at the kerhing of the footpath. In addition to the floodlighting the building will be arrayed with portraits of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and with shields and other emblems. A start will be made on the work within the next day or two. The decoration of Gladstone road with shields, bannerettes, bunting, streamer!*, and pennants, from Kaiti bridge lo Derby street, is set down in tne programme of the Uisborne Borough Council, but no definite arrangements! have been made yet. The borough engineer, Mr. E. I!. Thomas, is still awaiting for the Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board estimate of 'he cost of the work, and the extent of the work depends upon that report.

If the estimates allow it, the Robinson Memorial clock tower will be specially illuminated and draped with banners, the tree in Head's Quay, which is still specially wired, will be lit in a coloured effect, and the bridge lights will be coloured. The streamers of coloured lights in the town area already form a foundation for the lighting scheme.

All the materials and decorations except the bunting, streamers, and pennants are now in hand, and it is expected that the last of those ordered will be received within the next few days. To give the best effect, certain structures, such as the "bridges and clock tower, will be concentrated on.