GAS USES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1931, Page 4

GAS USES

FORGING AHEAD. Now that summer is here, the careful housewife will find the economy of gas for cooking, heating, lighting and general household purposes in whicii heat is required. The uses of gas is growing and its popularity. is forging ahead. A late English publication points out that nearly 10,003,000 consumers- in the British Isles regularly use gas. Scores of thousands of up-to-date new houses are .having gas laid on. During 1930 more than 161,0C0 g«£> points were fitted in some 29,030 new houses hy one ga.s undertaking alone. 3,000 trades use.,gas. ' Birmingham, Sheffield, and Coventry manufacturers alone require more than 7,000,000,000 cubic feet each year. In 1912 the annual consumption of gas in the British Isles was 210,000,000,000 cubic feet. The 1930 returns -show’ an output c-f nearly 330, GOO, 000;000 cubic feet. This, increased demand for gas throughout the country has necessitated increases, in Capital of Gas Undertakings. One recent £2,500,030 4*% debenture issue was over subscribed 26 times.

There is an obvious reason for this growing popularity which is found in. the great usefulness °f a gas serivee in the home. The modern app]iaUee», now at'e adaptable to all conditions, and there is a size for every' family! Housewives who use gals are the sav isfled customers, 1 for utilising it for Cooking and heating, saves time ’and drudgery, and incidentally money—u special consideration when economy In the home is ! called for to-day. At the local works n Stafford Street particulars of all kinds cf 'appliances are given and estimates made. •At the showroom in ReVel.l Street f Mr W. H. Shannon will supply full particulars of the deferred payment system The Gas Company is out to give its best service and its officers will be glad to give all information. Enquiries are solicited. Special instruction can he given if required free of cost, in the economical use of gas cooking, an f l home demonstrations, will also be given on application.