GAS WORKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2426, 9 May 1922, Page 2

GAS WORKS.

MARCH WORKING

The amount of gas manufactured during ihe month of March was 562,600 ft., which with the amount in the holder on March Ist., B.OQOft., made a total of 570,600 ft, During the month 460,700 ft. of gas were used by consumers. 23,000 ft. in street lamps, 30,500 ft. at the and there was 7,500 ft. in the holder oil the Ist April, making a total of 530,700 ft. and leaving 39,900 ft., representing 7 per eem. unaccounted for. 5(5 tons of coal was carbonised during the month, yielding 10,046 o'.ft, to the ton.

The. earnings for the month totalled €346 17s 9d, and were made up as follows: —Gas sales (lighting) £l2l 11s fid, heat and power £143 5s (id, coke sales £37 0s 4d, tar sales £2S 5s o<i, fittings £ls 19s 2d, services 17s fid. labour services (is, labour fittings Is 9d, miscellaneous Is, a total of £346 17s 9d. The expenditure for the- month totalled £216 18s Bd, and was made lip’as follows; —Coal £l4l 11s 2d, salaries, wages etc. £59 7s 3d, fittings Is Od. working expenses £1 ISs fid. engine oil and repairs 2s Od, insurance £9 16s 9d, phone £3 0s Od, Street lamp 17s 7d, Interest on Sinking fund £59 11s Sd, a total of GAS MANAGER’S REPORT The gas manager reported as follows at lasi night’s Council meeting During the month forty-nine tons of coal was carbonised yielding 11,248 e.ft. per ton. The apparatus has worked exceedingly well and the four setting of retorts is giving good working results. T •have had most of the six setting taken down and will have everything in readiness for the retort setter. I have had to draw ihe girders on this bed up and tie them with angle irons as they had sprung and were not supporting the hydraulic main. Now this is -ecurelV fitted on to he girders. The fire-bricks and retorts have arrived but several lots are broken and the Town Clerk lias written the makers about them. I have purchased a little Australian coal, which t I think will warrant the extra cost, as we can get 1,500 to 1,600 e.ft. more per ton and I might add that several times during the month 1 had to put this coal in the retorts alone as the other slack was so very wet as to make it hard lo keep up the supply.’ Several lamps have been turned out after he lamplighter has lit them this month. Also one at the corner, of Duncan Street has been lit during the day. The Mayor in moving the adoption nf the report said that he had viewed the fire-bricks and, to sav the least, they bad arrived at the works in a shocking condition. It was impossible to .say whether the damage had been done on the Dunedin-Wel-lington or the Wellington-Foxton run. The report was adopted.