HORSE v. MOTOR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 5 December 1910, Page 4

HORSE v. MOTOR.

When at Dublin Horse Show, Mr T. Bullock, of Ashburton, said farmers remarked to him: "It is of no use our breeding horses, when the taxi- , cab and omnibus are going to oust them from the cities." My answer to them will also answer the question of electricity superseding gas (he said in an interview with the Ashburton Mail). When kerosene was introduced, people said that there would be no use for candles. When gas came in it was said that kerosene and candles would find no market. When electricity was first' introduced, men said gas was doomed, it is not so. I said tliat there, was no such thing as one superseding the other. There has been a gradual increase in all of them, and this very night more candles, more kerosene, more gas, and more electricity will i be consumed than ever before, bei cause the demand for light is ever increasing. While travelling, I noticed that in every hotel gas and electricity were both in use, one just as much as the other. Further, in London the gas lamp and the electric arc-light are used for street-illumina-tion. In Belgium I saw gas and electricity used side by side in every town. Id nearly every case, though, the tendency is for gas to be a little cheaper than electricity. Small gasworks are numerous in the smaller country towns and in the ■ suburbs of the larger cities. -The feeling is that the municipality should own the gas-works, trams, and water-serv-ices.