GAS FOR EVERYTHING.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1924, Page 2

GAS FOR EVERYTHING.

MODKIIX U*SKS. At tin* wonderful Wembley Exhibition there is a remarkable display of gas exhibits, and the fullest opportunity is taken to advertise the uses of gas. I .eel arcs are given at intervals during the day tu the interested throngs, and in an address in early .May. line of tin* speakers went on to suv:—

It was literally true to say there is little, if anything, that a man wears, eats, fluids or uses biu gas oi some other product of the gasworks lias played a part in ils making. JI is fell lint has been shaped by the beat of the gas, bis walking-stick curved .by it, liis cohar and shirt ironed by it; his craavt lias been coloured by conl-tr.r dyes ; the cloth In* wears was “conditioned” by gas; bis meals are properly cooked by it—they certainly art* if lie is at Wembley; the biscuits be eats were baked by ii -as in the line biscuit exhibit in tin* Palace of Industry; the sweets or chocolates he have been made from sugar boiled bv gas. and the type used for printing the paper lie reads over his cuii'ee wa- melted by its steady, easily controlled, reliable beat. The engine for l;is m nor ear was run iu by ga- on the te-ting belieh ; the aluminium for the castings used in it. as iu aeroplane and submarine en-

gine-' was melted in gas furnaces such as are shown in operation iu the Exhibit ; the gears were hardened by gas. and the sheet-metal work japanned and enamelled by it. And so on, through every article of his daily use. man owe- gas some degree or other ol its prodiletion and perfection. Willi till it- varying uses, gas in the holm l is its special domestic use, and

• ,eiy house in Hokitika should l.e oil tin* service. The more consumers the cheaper the supply, and as gas can be used to so mlicit advantage, beads ol households will be neglecting tlicirpiwn interests if installation is delayed, and the pleasures of the service not enioved.