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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2564, 11 September 1915, Page 6

Tlio electrio storage battery car is rapidly coming into favour both in America and fingland for commercial and municipal'purposes. Ono of tho latost "Electrical' Times" of London records tho use that is being made of tho storage battery vehicle for firo brigade purposes,_ .and also its utility where any services requiring vehicles is undertaken by a municipality which has its own electric plant. The City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton) believes that the storage battery vehicle would bo tho ideal ono for Wellington for tho collection of tlio refuse of the City from depots and taking it to tlio destructor. There aro at present dead hours, during which tho electrical powor plant in Mercer Street lias to bo kept running, whilst much of the power generated goes to waste. During those hours the storage battery cars could bo charged at next to. 110 cost, and so provided with a force that would keep thorn going tho whole of tho succeeding day. On the. same grounds there is no reason why tlio fire brigade's engines of tho futuro should not be storago battery vehicles, to be charged up during the "dead" hours of tho night. With petrol at 2s. 4d. a gallon the storago battery vehicle is bound to come this way.

A. spring ' agricultural instruction school for teachers was opened in Masterton on Monday morning. About seventy tcacliors, from all'parts of tho Wellington education district aro in attendance. Mr. C. A. Gumming, senior agricultural instructor, assisted by Mr. J. Stevenson, of Pahiatua, is in charge. Mr, Victor 11. Smith, box 59, Feildiug; Jim a billiard inloon for gale.