INSIDE THE BUILDING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11685, 29 April 1916, Page 9

INSIDE THE BUILDING.

A BRILLIANT SCENE. Inside the King Eel ward Barracks the scene that met the eye was gay and tpleudid. Flags, bunting and lengths of coloured sateen hung from the Avails anii draped the archways in flowing linos of "colour that were, most artistic aiuf pleasing. Every where was colour, the national shades and those of the Allies blending pleasingly in the brilliant electric light. Tho lighting scheme had been earned, out mo't elab6rately. Flame arcs showed a vivid glare and tho clusters. oi electric- group lights threw the interio! into a blaze. Shining through draperies of coloured materia the candelabra, with their mvnad light?, were soft anc? effective, vrlule the throne, surrounded by a. purple velvet cnj.o|j> v and topped with a crown of lights Mazed m glorious splendour. if was an animated and magmficent Thousands of fat-os showmg SSS imder the multitude of lights. nificence. . , . t i )e people Quito ™ r .r .« a ° a t lo ',L£ fll.v tegan (•> gathe : ; »"d to ~l e by more and inoie , ore Ulp opPn ing number? nntd , , VJIS occupying all the available P< a sea of from above the big a W ,hilo tho wm%>£>££ „«r Jeisation rose and' Ie " S vat! sU p. - topic aroused interest and I INtpd by another.. ]ere the Lights everywhere, everuvii - , -P»ple, a vast Jirmg sca P uU,atinb •' ■...*• ■ . , . V."

life and animation. War was the instigator of it all, yet war seemed far, far off. For the time it -was fairyland, but the drab khaki of the soldiers touched the note that made it real and gave pause to the bounding spirit.-