A MODERN BOON

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 3

A MODERN BOON

LIGHTING BY ELECTRICITY. “There is one aspect of the generally admitted advantages of electricity which is sometimes from familiarity forgotten. I refer to lighting,” writes Mr A. C. Cramb in the “Municipal Journal.” “An incalculable burden of sickness caused by strain and nervous anxiety would be abolished once and for all—to the great benefit of industry and of thousands of households —if wherever men and women worked, or performed any task requiring concentration under artificial light, the kind of c ar J' 1 ‘ ficial light supplied would be of the intensity and of the quality which is made possible by modern electrical science. Nobody who has only seen the Black Country during the past year has any idea how aptly this part of England was so nicknamed 5C years ago-, and how depressing was the immense pall of smoke with its accompanying dirt. To-day, chiefly owing to the high percentage of electrification in the'industry of the Black Country, the smoke pall has been lifted. The Black Country is today cleaner than many other industrial areas in Great Britain in which, for technical reasons, the high percentage of industrial electrification has not yet been achieved.”