SOME GAS FIGURES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1925, Page 2

SOME GAS FIGURES

]t is a mistake to imagine that gas manufacture is a dying industry. On the contrary, is is a very progressive business.

At Wembley Exhibition two million feet of gas were used weekly at the restaurants for cooking, live thousand burners were installed in the amusement parks for lighting. The capital invested in the British gas- industry represented at the exhibition was one hundred and seventy millions sterling. A hundred thousand men are engaged in the gas industry and 111 million tons of coal and 4(5 million gallons of oil were used to make 27 thousand million feet of gas for the year in England.

Immense strides are also being made in the United States in the increased consumption of gas. Vor instance, more gas is used in the city of Chicago than in the whole of Scotland and Ireland combined. It is the same in Canada.

At Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto very large contracts have been recently ] u t for extensions to existing gas producing plants. It is certain that gas is to he the fuel of the future. It will he used lor its general convenience. its time and labour saving, and cleanliness. It is always on lap day and night and only the amount used lias to he paid for.