ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

Otaki Mail, 17 September 1923, Page 4

ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

‘ RROPORTIUN OF UOrsF.s LIT. NEW ZEALAND THIRD IN WORLD. New Zealand stands surprisingly • hijuli in a table drawn up by an I American iecbnical writer to show 'the proportion of houses lit by electricity in a dozen or so nations which lead the world in this respect. Canada leads off with 38.3 out of every mo homes so lit. the t inted States come a good second with a pereen- | t :l ge of 36.8, and then comes, not i-Norway or Sweden or one of the other I great power producing countries, but. ' New Zealand, with 30.8 houses out of .the average hundred lit by electricity. Japan is' next on the list with 29.0 per cent., and then follow Denmark 20.8, Switzerland 23.0, Norway 21.3, Belgium 10.7. Australia 18. and Great Britain 16.5 per cent., the oilier eonii- ! tries being all down below the 15 per ! cent. mark. The use of electricity for , lighting is. of course, a vastly differ- | cut tiling from the use of power as ’ power, and thus in another table showing the consumption oi power per capita Now Zealand is not meni tioned. the ten leading countries be- ! ing chile 125. Great. Britain 130. Ger- | mam- HI. France LIT, South Africa : Ilk). Sweden 365. the Fnitoil .-fates ■572 Norway 503. Canada f. 12, and , Switzerland, at the top with a big ! margin to spare, 700 kilowatt hours per annum. The Mangmhn©, WaikoreI moana, Araptini and Southland ! schemes ntav lift New Zealand to i second place" or mar to it. as regards i tlie percentage of houses lit by elec- > | tricity, but Switzerland and the next ’ j nine countries on tire list have far too I j long a lead as regards power.