GAS ACCOUNTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 210, 2 September 1920, Page 2

GAS ACCOUNTS.

■•Inquirer" points out that the figures of the month's quantity of gas charged for by the company should prove whether the amount is above or below the average of consumption under normal pressure. Such figures would show whether the experience of those complaining of large tills was the rule or the exception. "Perplexed 7, expresses his dissatisfaction in the form of a <]Uery asking how ! it is that owing to' gas restrictions he I has practically no gas, yet according to his account for gas consumption for the period ending AugU3t 17 he has j used 200 feet more than the previous month, notwithstanding the fact of having to light gas earlier in the day during July than in August. "Puzzled" gives the following as her experience: "iFor two of the longest months, May and June, when the g-as was lit every morning for at least an hour. 1 was charged for 2,400. Then in July, when part of the time the pressure wan reduced, and we never had tha gas alight in the morning at all, the register > jumped up to 3.100. Now for this month , 1 am charged for 2,600. and most of the I time the pressure has been reduced, and the gas has been lit fully half an hour later in the evening and never in the morning. The less you use gas the more you use—which seems absurd." '•Scot' , writes:—"My gas account shows a material increase, although very, much less gas has l>3>n u-ei i n mv house: 1 latoly. It would .:j-jm that whatever thej caiwe, the facts adduced by so many, correspondents show that the CJas Com-1 pany are collecting from the unfortunate! consumers a large amount of money (in: the aggregate) for which no value hasi been given. The directors of the company will doubtless arrange for these ,, overcharges to be refunded." I Another "Xo Gas" remarks that I although the gas in his house was I turned off every night at 7 o'clock, ! only on one previous occasion, and that I when there was sickness in the house hns he received such a large gas bill as on the laet occasion. "Gasometer" is of the opinion that as in a great majority of cases the meters appear to register more feet of gas under low pressure for a service that is exceedingly inadequate, an investigation ' should he made by the Board of Trade to satisfy the consumer that low pressure does not involve the passing of a certain awouit vi nix tJu;i>H£h, Uμ aieter*. I,