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N.S.W. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 



V.-ELECTRIC FITTINGS. 



The Town Hall of Sydney has some very good electric mural brackets 

 decorated with the Waratah in wrought iron; but the accompanying design 

 (Figure jj) of an electrolier is from the facile pen and brush of Mr. L. Henry. 

 The centre piece of the ceiling is shown in black in section. The number of 

 illuminating lamps, of course, would be regulated according to the size of the hall 

 or room to be lighted, but in any case it would add considerably to the attrac- 

 tiveness of its surroundings. 



VI. GLASSWARE. 



Even this branch of technical skill did not 

 escape the versatile conceptions of Mr. L. 

 Henry, for here (in Figure 34) is shown a 

 suggestion for a decanter or water-bottle of a 

 Waratah design. 



The stopper is formed of a Waratah, with 

 two rows of bracts, one incurved and the other 

 recurved as a base. The top of the neck or 

 mouth of the bottle has also a similar number 

 of bracts, which meet at the tips. The body 

 is formed by an inverted liloom, the individual 

 flowers, slightly conventionalised, being ar- 

 ranged in regular rows, increasing in size 

 upwards, and over these are two rows of bracts, 

 surmounted by a couple of leaves to form the 

 handles. 



Fig. 34. 



VII.-HOROLOGY. 



No branch of Technology appears to have escaped the far-reaching per- 

 ception of Mr. L. Henry, for here (Figure 35) is reproduced his handiwork 

 in the form of a clock decoration. In the original design the eight rays are 

 in brass or gold, and the six stems of the individual Waratahs run at the 

 back of the clock, and arc made to curve at the bottom, and so form a support 

 of the clock on a pHiith. An individual stalk runs from each, and attaclies it to 

 the plinth. The two bottom Waratahs are in bud, or, more correctly, enclosed 

 in the unexpandcd bracts. A sufficiency of foHage is used in order to give the 

 necessary decorative eilcct. 



