THE GAS WORKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2176, 14 September 1920, Page 3

THE GAS WORKS.

JULY WOK KING. The amount of gas manufactured during the mouth of July was 608,0(10 ft., which, with (1 1 0 annum! in holder on July 1 si, 14,1)00 1:1., made :i (dial of 022,000 IT. Tin; amount sold lo consumers for lighting was 207.000 ft., for cooking and beating 220,300 ft., and for power 05,800 ft.. ‘27,400 ft. was used in Hie street lamps, 25,000 ft. al the works and manager’s house, and there was 10.000 ft. in the holder on August Ist., leaving 00.500 ft., representing just under ten per cent, of the output, unaccounted for. Fifty-eight toils of coal was carbonised, yielding .10,483 ft. per ton. The earnings for the month totalled £36( 4s od. being made up of gas sales (lighting £llO 13s 2d. (limit anti power) £125 5s Oil. coke -ale- £BO l> 7d. tar sales £2B Ids od, filling account CO IBs 3d, labour (lilting-) Jls (id, and miscellaneous 4s (id. The expuitdilure was as follows; — Goad £lls Is Od, salaries, wages, and labour £sl 5s Id, pipes £22 12s I’d, linings £5 19s Od, meter repairs £l3 3s sd, working expenses £3 9s sd, engine repairs and oil £0 7s (id, freight, wharfage and cartage £1 J(is od, interest and sinking fund £59 11s Bd, total £303 5s Bd. MAN AG UK’S KFI’GKT. The amount of gas mauufaelured in August was 555,900 ft., an increase of 84,400 ft. over the corresponding period of last year. The percentage of gas unaccounted for in July was nine per cent. I charged fourteen meters on the first of last month, and since reading my meters this month J lind Hume is a big saving in the amount of gas, and also coal, 8,000 ft, for lighting, representing £4 13s 2d nett, and 19,400 ft. for cooking and power, representing £9 (is 3d nett. This month I found 15 meters not registering, seven of which are slot meters, and as we have not any in hand 1 would recommend the purchase of half a dozen Alder and McKay wet slot meters. I have sent 32 meters to Wellington lo be repaired, and when they are returned will put them where necessary. During the month I put a service into the Public School, new service to street lamp in Fuller Street,.ami cleared six services (if water and sand, the double door on the front of stoke house was in bad repair, so I had a new one made. As the spouting over the front of stoke house is all broken away, I would recommend the purchase'of 36 ft, of spouting. This would, cost about £3 10. s Od. Owing to a further increase of 2s (id per ton on the price of coal. 1 would recommend the price of coke he raised to 2s (id per cwl. Ihe prices elsewhere at present are: Palmerston N. 2s (id, Hamilton and Auckland 2s Od. Paeroa 2s 6d. The proposed increase will mean ah increased revenue of £45 per annum. —The report was adopted.