RADIATORS BANNED.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 May 1920, Page 10

RADIATORS BANNED.

XOT AUSuUiTKI.m' ]?KKENTI AU Aucklanders Vim depend for warniih upon electric radiator* supplied with current from the cVly .power, may look forward to n fold e.\pmeiice this winter (says tin* Herald). The civic authorities decided some time ago that, it would be necessary to place a bun upon the use of radiators' for heath)); purposes during the winter.

The 'Mayor, Mr. IT. (Junsoti, state:! that, following upon the increased demands upon the available current, it had been decided that the council could not undertake to supply power for radiators. He did not know what effect would be given to his decision, however. The position was due to material ordered three years ago not yet being to hand. On two occasions material which had been ordered by the council was requisitioned by the British Government.

The supply of current- for illuminating electric lighting signs, continued Mr. Crimson, would be curtailed, as would happen in the case of all save absolutely essential avenues of consumption. Advertising signs, however, did not involve so heavy a drain upon the .supply of power as did radiators, which consumed a great deal of currant. Consequently the drastic step contemplated iiv connection with radiators would not be enforced in its entirety in the case of the skysigns. The curtailment to which the latter would bo subjected would be part and, parcel of the scheme to conserve the available current so that it might be concentrated upon essential uses.