LYTTELTON GAS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 21

LYTTELTON GAS

Report From Committee Good progress has been made in adopting suggestions made in the Lyttelton town clerk’s report on the gas works, according to-a report of the Lyttelton gas committee. A salesman, who has been engaged to sell gas heaters, has made a number of sales with a further number pending. Interest in gas heaters in the Lyttelton area was increasing, said the report. Arrangements are being made to take a representative of a Lyttelton engineering firm to Christel”irch to inspect a city gas furnace, with a view to considering the use of gas for industrial purposes.

Drawings for a cokeextraction plant are expected to be available this week, and when they arrived, prices for the installation of the plant would be obtained, the report said. A suitable boiler for the erection of a tar still has not yet been found, and it has been decided to advertise for a second-hand boiler. It is hoped that the by-products will be sold when the still is operating. Small quantities of asphalt will be produced in the future, and will be used by the works department as a trial.

The price of a new gas exhauster had been obtained. said the report, and the sum. £254. could be paid out of the depreciation fund, but further details of the suitability of this particular exhauster would first have to be sought. A price is also being obtained for repairs to the stoke-house roof and for the fitting of new skylights. The old brick chimney had been demolished down to the roof line, the report said.