LIGHTING A CAMP

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 15, 21 March 1940, Page 3

LIGHTING A CAMP

4. 2500 Points Installed At 1; Trentham V FIRE ALARM SYSTEM There is a lighting system in the entral District mobilization camp at 'rentham equivalent to that required >r a borough of 2000 persons. In all lere are 2500 points for lighting and biany more for heating and other purjbses. The power comes from the Hutt ‘‘alley Power Board system to the new Kb substation, which will carry a load lap 450 kilowatts. I Scores of different camp units are Applied. One of the most interesting 'htiiigs is the drying system in the tundry. If every Wellington houseife had one in her washhouse wet leather would hold no fears on washtig day. An electric ho-t-water boiler irculates hot water through a fan nit in the laundry, which in turn cirilates hot air in the drying room. It is etfers nature’s time in drying clothes. (1,,', The Public Works Department’s ect ricin ns. under one of the departmental electrical engineers. Mr. T. G.

ook. have been six months in the imp. and there is still work to do. eh men are continuously engaged. An electrical fire alarm system is irt of the equipment. This operates iroughout the old and the new camps ith call boxes at convenient points, call given is recorded automatically p the control board at the camp fire ■ ation and, as in the big city fire stams. the area from which the alarm bis given, is registered. UThe supply to the canteen alone is ual to a load of 150 kilowatts. The barrack rooms have each 15 points. ie shopping area and post office take i and 10 kilowatts respectively There are live church and non- ' lomina t : 1 huts taking roughly GO KJowatts. an X-ray hospital, eight four cookhouses, 10 bat--6 ion stores, four regimental stores. ' erl > drying rooms, tailoring and bootataking shops, a dental hospital, four L wer rooms, two laundries fitted with ling facilities, headquarters and er huts and rooms to be supplied 'Nothing has been overlooked to make electrical installation complete. , .Il to the provision of points for elecl, I shavers and radios. • shavers and radios. 1 ffifhe effect of all this work can best dilseen at night from the hills to the ■.;t of the camp. . To anyone looking ,vn on a dark night the camp is a icontratio’.i of hundreds of lights