CORRESPONDENCE. GAS v. ELECTRICITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 10 March 1906, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

GAS v. ELECTRICITY.

TO THE EDITOR. I Sin. I» your daily issue of i'tlirur ary ?.<,«, the following paragraph ap- i pearcd amongst this locals I "Mi' i " Wkitaker, who kas recently installed : " the electric light in kis grocery store "in Devon street, states lliat fop "three Saturday nights' gas his bill " was Is Od, and for the tkree suc- " cessivc Saturday nights his electric " light bill only amounted to 2s lid." I may premise my remark bv stating that the Company's accounts are monthly, and the meter index is only read once a month 1 lind for the month of January (:S1 days) Mr Wliitakcr consumed 000 cubic feci of gas, amounting to Is (id. I here were four .Saturday nights in January, nut three. Til is reduce# ll»c charge for three nights to 3s Ud. Whether or not during the month re!erred to gas was used for oilier purpose* than lighting up on Saturday nights. T inn not prepared to stale Moreover, I lind that in Mr~Wliitakcr's premises there were four incandescent lights, and m addition nine of the old style of burners, which, it is well known, ronsume incr.' Ihan doubk>tlic quantity of gas, and the light is very inferior. A consumer in town, whose premises are somewhat larger than Mr Whitaker's, has llircc improved incandescent lights installed, ami during the mouth of January (lighl - ing four Saturday nights) he consumed 2t|i) cubic feet of gas, amounting to Is lid ; and 1 haic no iloublMr Whilttkcr's gas bill would have amounted to about I the same, if the lights installed had i been of the modern and improved kind. [ 1 feel somewhat reluctant to trouble , yon on such a small matter, but am ' actuated to do <u because the paragraph referred to is both incorrect ami misleading to the general public. - I am, etc.. A. Sill TTI.IiWOIiTII, Chairman. N.l'. Gas Co. Ltd. New l'lyinoulb, March '.Uh, ltlOli. I " THE ULACKLKti OITBHEAK.

111 THE KUITOII. Sm,—We arc particularly iiiUTosti-il in the leading artiirle ill your issue of February '2iMil, under tin l heading ol " A Ome Charge." As manufacturers uf lil:il'lili'gojMsj we could not in' otherwise than iukw.leil. \Ve are not desirous of cunniiciitiiig on ;iitytili ti;T that has been wriilcu. Inn feel 1 hat in justice to ourselves. wc should ioitci'l what m'ght possibly lead to a uiisuudwtanding with reference Id our jii-n----llili't. Vn!i .Stale I!i;it " experience lias shown that v.iei'|j»;s from even laboratories of repute sometimes ujhitouiilably turnout bail." We have new.' liiul a single, or any lots of our lilaiklejjoiiU, or o(In-! 1 >'i>o'ilie, ,l liirn out bail. We have manufactured vaccines anil serums for yearn, ami om to il»i.' ex. triiorilinary precautions Inken, anil our laboratory ei|iii|)nieiil, ami (he rigid tests 1.) tt'hi.'h every lot manufactured is sjilijrfleil. it is impossible for any In leave that l.ibiir.ilnr: in other than the bsi condition. \\ c are. I L'viike, Davis Co. Sydney, 3rd March.