§ 62. Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been drawn to the strict manner in which the lighting regulations are enforced in certain areas and to the lax manner in which they are barely enforced in others, even approximately, close to them; if it is realised by the authorities that many central street lamps in the streets of London are permitted to reflect large brightly-illuminated patches on the roads, that such lights are easily seen from above, and that they render the finding of certain localities less difficult; whether, now that 2067 the time of year is fast approaching when Zeppelins are most likely to indulge in their activities, he is aware that certain top windows of the Foreign Office have been recently allowed, in the neighbourhood of the official residences, to be brilliantly illuminated without blinds being drawn; whether his attention has also been called to the virtually unscreened lights permitted at Wellington Barracks, while similar lights are not permitted either in the neighbouring palace or in private houses; and whether he will consider the possibility of arranging for greater uniformity both in restrictions and permissions?
Mr. SAMUELWhere the local authorities are so many and the methods of illumination so various as in the Metropolitan area it is extremely difficult to secure complete uniformity, but numerous experiments have been made as to the best method of obscuring street lamps so as to obtain an approximation to uniformity and to prevent undue illumination of the ground. Measures are now in contemplation for the introduction of certain improvements in the existing arrangements. Bright, unscreened lights are not allowed at the places mentioned, and, if they are observed, steps will be taken to deal with the matter.
§ Lord HUGH CECILIs great care taken to ascertain the opinion of those who are expert aviators as to what is visible and what is not?