THE GAS WORKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1435, 12 August 1915, Page 2

THE GAS WORKS.

JELY WORKING. The amount of gas manufactured at the local works during the month of July was 362,900 ft., which with the amount in holder on July Ist, 3500ft’, inade a total of 36(),-luoft. The amount sold to consumers was (lighting) 161,900 ft. (cooking and heating) 60,000 ft, (power) 63,700 ft., used in street lamps 27,500 ft., used at works 21,000 ft., and there was 1300 ft, in the holder on August Ist, leaving 15,800 ft. (representing -lyi per cent, of the output) unaccounted for. Thirty-two and a half tons of coal was carbonised, yielding 11,150 ft. per ton. The earnings totalled 14s 4d, made up of gas sales (lighting) ,£lll 4s -Id, (heat and power) ,£34 17s 2d, meter rent 7s, coke sales £ld 19s -Id, tar sales £\ 10s, weighing 14s, fitting account .£26 11s, services £2 10s, labour, £6 Is od. The expenditure was as follows Coal ,£43 Is 3d, salaries and wages ,£43 8s 2d, labour, fittings £l ss, pipes (services) Is 6d, fittings £6 10s 2d, meters £ls 4s 6d, tools ,£1 12s Id, working expenses 15s, miscellaneous (retorts) £b9 13s 3d, interest and sinking fund ,£59 I Is sd, total ,£2-11 2s sd.

READING TEST METERS. At Monday night’s meeting of the Borough Council, Cr Henderson said he wished to reply to certain remarks made at the previous meeting by Cr Whibley, concerning himself and Cr McColl. It was the first meeting from which he had been absent and he was surprised to find on his return to Foxton that the Councillor in question had accused him of neglecting his duty. He considered the attack made was unwarranted. Both he and Cr McColl had read the meters and read them very carefully and he did not know what actuated Cr Whibley in making the remarks lie did. In his absence he thought the attack was uncalled for. Had he neglected his duty he would expect to be brought to book but in this case he had not done so. Cr Whibley said that his remarks at the previous Council meeting were directed not at Crs Henderson and McColl personally, but the gas committee and the two Councillors as members of such committee. Had the meters been read as they should have been and a report submitted, the gas manager’s statement at the last meeting would have shown the correct amount of gas consumed by the street lamps instead of showing an amount in excess of what was really consumed. His complaint was that the Councillors in question had failed in their duty by reason of not having furnished a report. If the same thing happened in the future he would take the same course as he had done ongthis occasion, Cr McColl said that they were unable to furnish a report at the previous meeting because the lamps, with test meters attached, had not been burning for a month at that time. The Mayor said at the last meeting he had remarked that he thought it was a pity that the remarks referred to should have been made in the absence of the two Councillors.