NEW METHODS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 11

NEW METHODS

FOR OLD VILLAGE It was a happy idea on the part of jj r John Shelly-Rolls, the owner of tf e Avington estate, near Winchester, Hampshire, to turn 1:o practical use a eijUct water wheel on the River u chen, with the result that the of an electrical installation rnJ* now ©hJoyed in scores of thatched in the vil lages of Easton and • yf n Abbas. The water wheel was nnerly used for grinding corn, but c ‘r* *°©al industry succumbed to the . ‘“Petition of the larger flour mills, /occurred t 0 Sir John that he might the contrivance into the genHoti °* electricity for Avington an J- under expert advice, the •k. eßs * ry installation was made. Now bon has been extended for the villa 0f res *dents in the neighbouring ; o J*s and over a thousand rooms in anti cottages are brilliantly w*®' w hlle public places of assembly w. °een able to discard the oldoil lamps. Electrical lubourPqEj* equipment is also at the dis- -- 1 the householders and the cost Wi n , the Bame scale as in the City of in* JJ ester —?id per unit for illuminatPo*J! Urposes a ud 3d per unit for developments of the Do*.J. r * Se delude the erection of a ru er ’house near a waterfall in the **Uch t 0 meet increasing demands, «*nr „ are being made upon the pre--1 resources.