COST OF CONVERSION OF GAS APPLIANCES

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31121, 26 July 1966, Page 8

COST OF CONVERSION OF GAS APPLIANCES

(Ntw taaland Pro* Attooiaiion)

HAMILTON, July 28. Nine North Island gas authorities will pay nearly £2,500,000 to convert domestic gas appliances when Kapuni natural gas is piped. All domestic appliances at present used for manufactured gas will have to be converted, according to Mr C. H. Edwards, chief engineer for the Wellington Gas Company. It is proposed that the gas from Kapuni will be piped to Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Hawera, Levin, Hutt Valley and Wellington. The piping costs will reach nearly £6,500,000 says Mr Edwards, but he emphasises the costs of conversion will be borne by the gas authorities. “It won’t cost consumers a penny,” he says. The conversion will not prove difficult with the consumers’ co-operation, and inconvenience will be kept to a minimum.

Mr Edwards has just returned from a tour of the United States, Canada, Holland, France, Italy and Britain, where he studied methods of conversion. Most of the conversion work will be completed on the consumers’ premises and will probably not take more than an hour, explains Mr Edwards.