LIGHTING FEILDING.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 117, 15 November 1895, Page 2

LIGHTING FEILDING.

TO THE EDITOE OF THE STAB. Sir, — The following clipping from the Melbourne Argus, of October 26th, 1895, may be of interest to the ratepayers of Feilding : " The Municipal Council of Paris is taking steps to consider the best method of lighting that city with the acetylene gas, which the highest scientific authorities in France pronounce to be superior to the electric light and to that of the incandescent burners, while its illuminating power is twelve times as great as that of ordinary gas. The calcium can be produced at £3 per ton, and one ton of this material will supply 225 cubic metres of ac^tyWne, being at the rate of a fraction over 3d per cubic metre. It can be manufactured with the greatest ease in every household," The cubic metre referred to in the above is a stere and is equivalent to 35-3174 cubic feet. Ifthe"caleiuni' mentioned above is acetate of lime, then this matter is of vast importance not only to the rising borough of Feilding but to the colony at large, and it is a subject that ought to be thoroughly investigated by our Agricultural Department. For if the light is what the French savants say it is, then it would displace gas and kerosene in all our towns, small as well as great, and almost every tree and every sound log on our bush lands could be utilised, and it would give employment to thousands of working men in making charcoal and tar and producing pyroligneous acid, which latter is neutralised by lime and evaporated to produce acetate of lime. I am, etc., George Wilks