GAS USED TO RIPEN TOMATOES
LATEST “INDUSTRY” SERVED BY GAS. An ingenious gardener in a Sydney suburb is making strenuous efforts to be first on the market with the new season’s crop of tomatoes. He has erected a tent, in which he heats up the tomatoes with a gas radiator. 'l'his is one of the many ways in which gas is used for industrial heating purposes as explained by Messrs A. S. Hutchison and J. H. Banks, of the Australian Gas Light Company, in a lecture before the Chamber of Manufactures. Mr Hutchison mentioned the tom-ato-grower as the latest recruit to the use of gas for industrial heating. It was mentioned that a glass works in Sydney used 80,000.000 cubic feet of gas a year; a biscuit factory 41,000,000; a baker 5,000,000; a newspaper 5.000,000; and a poultry farmer 500.000. > —Sydney Guardian.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1930, Page 8
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142GAS USED TO RIPEN TOMATOES Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1930, Page 8
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