CHEAPER LIGHT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18228, 12 November 1924, Page 4

CHEAPER LIGHT.

POPULARISING ELECTRICITY.

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SYDNEY, November Z.

With tho approval of the full Council, a new system will operate at the beginning of next year providing for a reduction for the charges cf electricity other than that used for power purposes in factories. The new svs» tc-ni, the adoption of which will bo optional, in the ease of present users of electricity for domestic purposes, is so complicated to the lay mind that no one except probably" electricians soems to understand it properly; but the public liavo the assurance "of Mr Forbes Ma.ckay, the ' City Council's manager of the electrical 'department, that tho system will so popularise tlic* use of electricity that it will fc-rinfr into use all sorts of labour-saving devices and i'tve housewives of much of that domestic <irudgerj' which sometimes makes thc-m feel that matrimonial bliss quickly degenerates into matriji!t>Kial blisters. Tho people who will ben-edit appreciably under tho new system will lie the big establishments in town, big emporiums, for example, who.se lighting bills now run into anything from £SOOO to £IO,OOO a year. In their cases it will mean a reduction' ranging from about 25 to 30 or more per cent.