CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4396, 18 April 1893, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Gas Trouble. I [To THE EtHTOB Dajcy Timbs.J Sir,—l notice that several ingenious expUnationsof tbo sudden eoiipeoh of tbe MastDitongaa when the unfortunato consumers are using it, have been givon, Economy has been suggested ; and I hava been told that somebody is trying to raiso bis screw by starving the rotorts. Perhaps somebody will engrairo whether tho manager and man have carried out their arrangement of having a aie;hc and diiy shift week &nd weak about, and if ibis division of isbouf has only boon carried oat lately ; and whether the failure of the gns supply is duo to the maunder, who has been long aocastaiued to dsy duty, floing on aight work. I beliovo it will bo found that if the retorts ftro charged regulavly evoiy six hours, or four times nor day, of twenty-four hours, tho supply of gas will be suSivinnt, but if ono man does his work and oliarges the retorts twico during tho day of twolvo hours, and bis mate only ohftrgos them onoo at night, or during the twolvo bourstbus allowing (he retorts to coot down I —a satistflotory supply of gas is not to; bejexpootod. Any practical man will! undewUnd what I mean.—l am, i

The business incapacity of the Maatcrtoa Burough Oouuoil is virtually the cause of ail the gas difficulties. —Ed. W.D.l'.-j