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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 261, 21 May 1910, Page 3

Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for the Australian Commonwealth, who was entertained by the Carpenters' Company -in London, pleaded that the streams of British emigrants who went to foreign lands should be sent to Australia. He was going to make strong representations to hi* Government that some of the thousands of boys and girls in Poor Law institutions in this country, who were turned into the streets when they were sixteen, should be taken out to the. freer spaces of Australia, where they would be welcomed A further section of the StratfordOngarue railway, 11 miles in length, extending from Te Wera to Huiroa, is expected to be opened early next month, states the "Dominion." One of the Ministers of the Crown will attend the opening ceremony. When the first two sections of the line were laid the Department under-estimated the amount of traffic to be carried, and it has been found necessary to relay the line from Stratford to Huiroa with heavier metal than was put down at first. An additional section of 12 miles from Te Wera to Pohukura is practically completed. The progress of the work will be delayed for some time before it can reach Whangamomona, six miles past Pohukura, by the construction of a tunnel 30 chains in length, which has just been commenced. Competition between gas and electricity was never keener than it is today. The Welsbach mantle did for gas what the new Wesbach and other metallic filament lamps are now doing for electricity. In a report from the New Plymouth borough electrical engineer it is stated that the new lamp gives a 25-candle power light with the same expenditure of current that produced an 8-candle power light in the old days. Indeed, the offer made by the magician in the "Arabian Nights" of "new lamps for old," is parallelled in this twentieth century by exactly the same bargain; one enterprising firm offering to instal the new lamps without any charge whatever beyond the difference in the saving between the old electric light bill and the new one. The electric radiator and the electric iron are steadily increasing in use in New Plymouth, andladies who 'have had to stand over a hot iron by the hour together, will envy the housewives in those places where electricity is in use.