ELECTRICAL RANGES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10356, 17 April 1930, Page 4

ELECTRICAL RANGES.

According to the manager of the Thames Valley Power Board quite a number of consumers while on the flat rate have not given their appliances fair wewar and tear, owing to unnecessary use. "I can quote,” he wrote to the last meeting of the Board, “Instances of consumers not disconnecting the switches on the range while absent from their homes for a number of hours, and on their return have found the thermometer destroyed together with the range door buckled, making complete insulation of the oven inmpossible." Mr Sprague went on to say that consumers in some cases did not bother to work out the actual cost of the range per week, or month, hut rushed blindfoldly into the assumption that it was too expensive. He recounted the case of one consumer, who, upon receiving his account, immediately purchased a kerosene cooker and used same tor the next period at a cost of 8s per week. Upon the cost of the electric being looked into, which also included ironing, etc., it was found that the cost of electricity was only 4/6 per week, against the other method at 8s per week, and no consideration was made for cleanliness and efficiency- “If consumers would carefully peruse the instructions and circulars issued by the Board from time to time, they would find them of great assistance,” he concluded.