ELECTRIC WATER HEATING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1940, Page 7

ELECTRIC WATER HEATING

(To the Editor.) Sir. —In your issue of Monday. March 4, your correspondent. “Stale House Tenant." speaks of a "splendid daylong service with electric hot water for approximately 7s 6d per month.” I should like to inform him or her that for eleven years now 1 have been paying eleven shillings per month for a twenty-one hour service and get very poor results. Our family of three are very lucky if each gets a really hot bath twice a week, without recourse to the services of the copper in the wash-house. This in spite of repeated appeals, through the long grey years, to various officials of the Power Board, who merely look wise and speak very learnedly of wattage, voltage, electrons, splitting the atom and so forth, which only results in a headache for the unfortunate householder. When I consulted a non-Power Board electrician, he replied in everyday language that according to the law relating to weights and measures, a grocer, for instance, is compelled to give exactly twelve pounds of’ sugar when twelve pounds is bought, but is the exact measure of electric current given for the money paid? No. "State House Tenant.” give me gas or give me death, as the poet has it.—l am. etc.. "PRIVATE HOUSE TENANT." Masterton, March 5.