THE GAS WORKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1548, 9 May 1916, Page 3

THE GAS WORKS.

• APRIL WORKING. The amount of gas manufactured during the month of April was 477,200 ft., which, with the amount in holder on April Ist, 2,500C1., made a total of 479,700 ft. The amount sold to consumers was : (lighting) 102,500 ft., (cooking and heating) 137,500 ft., (power) 110,400 ft., used in street lamps 25,000 ft., used at works 23,000 ft., and there was 3,000 ft. in the holder on May Ist, leaving 18,300f1. (representing four per cent, of the total output) unaccounted for. Forty and aluilf tons of coal was carbonised, yielding IIJIOOft. of gas per lon. The earnings totalled £llß 13s Bd, made up of, gas sales (lighting) £B3 15s lOd, (heat and power) £7l 0s Bd, meter rent 13s, coke sales £1 2s !)d, tar sales £1 8s t/d, fitting account £2O 17s !)d, ser-\i(-es 4s, labour fittings 7s Sd, miscellaneous ss. The expenditure was as follows : Coal £55 13s 9d, salaries and wages £3l Is lid, labour .(services) £8 5s lOd, (fittings) £9 10s od, (mains) £8 10s od, pipes (mains) £5(5 18s Od, fillings £5 18s 3d, repairs £4 19s 7<l, working expenses Is, printing and advertising 12s Od, engine repairs and oil 11s Od, miscellaneous £3 ,0s Od, interest and sinking fund £59 11s Bd, total £245 0s lid.

MANAGER’S REPORT

The gas manager reported as follows at last night’s Council meeting :

“I have to report installing four now services with meters. Four gas cookers have been fixed during the month, and gas laid on to one small engine. A few dwellings have* had the lights put in, and we are now putting down the main in Hillary Street. Fifty-four and a-half tuns of coal was received. We have now sixty large cookers in use, having fixed twenty-eight this summer season. We. still have enquiries for two or three more. The time has expired for receiving orders on the ‘cost price’ basis. We got, some 30 fresh orders. We have still about two dozen not attended to yet, but now that the rush for cookers - is over till the spring, we will get the gas fitting worked off in a few weeks. I agfiin remind you to provide for a big rush for new cookers in the coming spring.”